Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen by a one-eyed, motionless person who is clearly detached from what he sees. It makes a God of the spectator, who becomes the person on whom the whole world converges, the Unmoved Onlooker.

Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

Drawing never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth, because the hunger it satisfies – the desire for an active, investigative, manually vivid relation with the things we see and yearn to know about – is apparently immortal.

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art