Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

More of me comes out when I improvise.

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house.

It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.

To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.

.burn, everybody likes to watch the fire..

I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can't see how to do it.

I knew that he was as reliable as a mathematical formula.

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

Let today be the day you give up who you've been for who you can become.

Don't you know that you're nothing more than a one night stand?

Unless you really understand others, you can hardly attain your own self-understanding.

I had to have a complete liver transplant.

I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar, and I ended up ... making things that I think can change the world.

The warm green of the grass, sprinkled with flowers of many hues, is a carpet whereon we walk with noiseless tread.