Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.

It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens.

The cancer of time is eating us away

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.

I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist.

Why change the world? Change worlds!

Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.