I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

See the first stroke as a start and everything after that a recovery.

The gesture must be correct. If the gesture is correct, your mind really creates the reality of the figure, and it is not necessary to hang on all the rest [of the details].

If a figure doesn't look back at you, you forget it.

What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is.

Though I have considerable interest in Europe and in traveling, I am most content with simply working and allowing the world that I'm creating to unfold before my eyes.

I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and tradition than in inventing a unique imagery.

I think that whenever children be born that are not wanted they should be killed directly, before their souls come to 'em, and not allowed to grow big and walk about!

Science sees signs; Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak.

Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!

He is ugly and sad, but he is all love.

There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.

You have to take care of yourself, your body, your mind, take care of your soul-be your own keeper.

Accurately recalling an entire day of fishing is like trying to push smoke back down a chimney, so you settle on these specific moments.

Fool witch once, shame on you. Fool witch twice, oozing sores and an eternal rash in private areas.