In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.

You form a society: that limits you. Adopt a name, and you've limited yourself again; draw up a constitution and bylaws and you've made a groove, a rut, that hampers your growth. You think you can fix your course and move straight along it. But sometimes the important thing is to strike out sidewise.

Color is only beautiful when it means something.

I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.