The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

Your limits are set by your thoughts. Remember, you can change them by changing your thoughts.

To find doesn't always require to search.

If you work together as a team, the arrangement should be positive and beneficial to all involved.

Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

A good sentence is a key . It unlocks the mind of the reader.

Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds.

If the rest of the world likes Americans only when we're dying, the rest of the world can go to hell.

I feel like you have to tell people who you are, but you don't have to be disrespectful about it. But you also don't have to be a shrinking violet.

A priority is observed, not manufactured or assigned. Otherwise, it's necessarily not a priority.

By the time I get through writing a score, I know the book better than the book writer does, because I've examined every word, and questioned the book writer on every word.