I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.

Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.

It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout.

The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.

New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.

The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?

Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.

We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.

The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

It is the fate of operating systems to become free.

Life is what happens in-between the mother and the sister

I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!