The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.

I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.

An artist is an explorer.

Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.