Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable passage of time. In fact, solitude then becomes a kind of companion.

Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.

The deliberate expansion of means and methods does not automatically bring a new dimension of value.

Those who largely rely on their hands and the beautiful or shocking traces of the imagination that they leave on the canvas ...CONCRETE... one builds a picture.

Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.

Everything that you paint may be used as evidence against you.

Only during the action is the idea of matter influenced.

Every great artist gives birth to a new universe, in which the familiar things look the way they have never before looked to anyone.

Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters."Computer: "I don't understand-"Issac: "Me neither. Pause

She was ... unhappy. It was part of her, you could not separate her from it. She was sad the way a horse is strong or a bird flies.

Working ten times as hard will make you twice as good.

Your message means less than the way the message is delivered, because in actuality, the way the message is delivered, IS the message.

The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.

No two persons think alike, even if they outwardly profess the same faith, so we have as many religions in Christianity as we have believers.

Learn to shake yourself loose from what the world believes is the only reality.

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

After seeing kids play polo against big guys, it only shows that horses are the greatest equalizer in the world. No matter what you weigh, the little fellow is your equal on a horse.