That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.

Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

All publicity works upon anxiety.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.