An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

Focusing isn't just an optical activity; it is also a mental one.

An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.

If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behaviour, so to speak. It is promiscuous like nothing.

The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a paradox of chaos and order in one.

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind.

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.

It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising.

Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.

The court system is the graveyard where Trump's fanciful delusions will be laid to rest.

Lord, I am in this world to show Your mercy to others...For my part I will glorify You by making known how good You are to sinners, that Your mercy is boundless.

We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.

Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.

If you have more fish on your wall than pictures, you might be a redneck.

Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.

In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.

I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.

The purpose of autonomous driving is to eliminate accidents.