Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
We are connected with our own age if we recognize ourselves in relation to outside events; and we have grasped its spirit when we influence the future.
An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea
Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling.
You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.
The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living, much more leavening, stirring, awakening, than square yards of wall space.
I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.
The key research I usually apply that allows me to understand the roles that I take on, starts with the script in front of me, and what it offers. I try to absorb as much of it as I can, in the time that I have to study it, and I like to change things up, if I have a choice in the matter. . . and I usually don't. I dream on it, write about and find out who the individual is, and try to bring him to life with as much human and truth as I can.
One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.
Somewhere, all the people we have loved and lost are still among us, in the house that we call history.
When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.