Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

When anything goes, everything goes.

Don't waste today by talking about yesterday until it's finally tomorrow.

He who fails to know his real and true competitor shall never be able to give a good account of his stewardship in life! Your true and real competitor is your real and true solemn duty to your Maker!

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.

Typically your work will end up in a museum [after] you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of your work after you're dead.

I will either find a way or make one.

The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.

I'm no saint, but there are times when I simply cannot sanction freedom from responsibility.

I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.

And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.