My technique, starting with a quick outline in pencil, is designed to record first impressions, with no time for second thoughts.

If you work outdoors be passive, go with the weather. This may mean two hours sheltering from a downpour, followed by a wonderful burst of sunlight and a rainbow.

I try not to handle the foreign subjects with my English techniques and preconceptions, but to paint Sydney in Sydney and Tangier in Tangier.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

All things must change to something new to something strange.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

I think that's part of the creative process to disagree about certain ideas. But we also agree just as much as we disagree, I would say.

If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.

Crackdowns on Internet content make clear the need for an anonymized Web. Now, someone just needs to implement it.

And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.