Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.
It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.
A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.
I start from experience and read. . .always between polarities - loud and not-loud, young and old, spring and winter. If I can make black and white behave together instead of shooting at each other only, I feel proud.
Learn to see and to feel life; that is, cultivate imagination, because there are still marvels in the world, because life is a mystery and always will be. But be aware of it.