It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.

We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.

It is hard for a flat thing to understand a round one.

I look at nature, I see myself. Paintings are mirrors, so is nature.

I would like to make something that is real in itself that does not remind anyone of any other things, and that does not have to be explained like the letter A, for instance.

I should like to take the wind and water and sand as a motif and work with them, but it has to be simplified in most cases to colour and force lines, just as music has done with sound.

Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its essence which I wish to put down. It should be a delightful adventure.

Daring greatly, divine grace.

Great endurance, great strength.

Cost little less than new before they're ended.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Regarding wetsuits, I always liked the Marilyn Minter quote, 'Everything's better when wet,' injecting some style into sports utility.

I have not had a drink for four years, which for me is a long time.

Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

God's greatest tragedy is the creation of mankind.

I'm lucky not to have a nine-to-five job.

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.