I'm fascinated by America. . . it's so odd.
My best work is always done. . . when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.
A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.
Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power.
I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.
I am always worried whether I am doing my best work.
So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.
There is a source of power in each of us that we don't realize until we take responsibility.
Earth has cooled since 1998 in defiance of the predictions by the UN-IPCC. . . . The global temperature for 2007 was the coldest in a decade and the coldest of the millennium. . . which is why 'global warming' is now called 'climate change. '
The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness.
Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.