There's very few people, who really thrive creatively under great stress and conflict.
I wanted things that I couldn't at times articulate.
We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.
Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what's expected of you. That's a formula for dead art, or fashionable art.
You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once.
I'd rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do.
Poor people will do almost anything to avoid problems. They see a challenge and they run. . . the secret to success, my friends, is not to try to avoid or get rid of or shrink from your problems; the secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than your problems.
I don't look at myself as a hero I look at myself as just another person who's on the path. I have got a light in front of me shining and I have got other people in front of me with their light shinning for me, I have got people behind me with their light shinning for me.
Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.
The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.