Colors are beautiful when they are significant.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.

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

Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds.

In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.

Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is the result of a sometimes successful effort to free myself from any idea that what I produce must be art.