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

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

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.

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

Relationships are the flavors of life.

Dogs come when they are called cats take a message and get back to you.

The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!

[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.

I really don't have favorites; I'm just a fan of movies, period.

Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.

I'm especially interested in relationships since that is a part of life that causes enormous pain for many people.

You have to remember that actors are human beings. Which is hard sometimes because they look so much better than human beings.

It was the hardest year of my life. It was humbling. I was a fish out of water.

Sometimes, there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it. Like my heart's going to cave in.