Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity
The awareness of imagery is part of living. . . a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception. . . of images.
True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.
Open your eyes at last and see. . . now I will open the book of the world for you,there are no words in it,just pictures
All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.
I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do with extracting intimate secrets or confessions, but rather with establishing, in motion, an essential image of the kind that remains in memory or recurs in dreams.
However ugly a face may be, we can discover some beauty in it if we first experience wonder before it and then begin to understand it, too.
We write because something inside says we must and we can no longer ignore that voice.
Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician.
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera. . . they are made with the eye, heart and head.
The most important thing about translucent people is that their life has been deeply transformed by an awakening.