The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.

Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

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.