Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.

Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.

Ability, experience and books have solution for all the problems.

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn't change how you lived in the present. They were truth, but they weren't all the truth.

One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.

Finding lack in others is not the path to liking what you see in yourself.

This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.

Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

History does not unfold: it piles up.

I love being a fashion designer.

Your first great duties, you are sensible, are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer. Let these be ever present to your minds, and exemplified in your lives and conduct.