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

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

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.

There is nothing more entertaining than to have a frank talk with yourself. Few do it-frankly. Educating yourself is getting acquainted with yourself.

You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.