The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence. In such moments activity is inevitable, and whether this activity is with brush, pen, chisel, or tongue, its result is but a by-product of the state, a trace, the footprint of the state.

Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.

Your style is the way you talk in paint.

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.