This was my first encounter with art as art (he saw 'Pinky' painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and 'The Blue Boy" painted by Thomas Gainborough).. ..somebody actually MADE those paintings.. ..(it) was the first time I realized you could be an artist.

I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed.

I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.

An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

Work is my joy... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.

This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.