The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the essential experience of the picture.

While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.

I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer