The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.