I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty.
I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work
It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.
At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.
I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.
As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Chance plays a powerful role in every life - our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all; a few drops here or there matter enormously - but consequences often become more serious as income levels go down.
I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more time with my friends, more time with my family, my extended family. I always want to read more books.