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.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

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

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.

Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.

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.

So you've taken to spying on her. It must be love.

We often go astray, seeking our own way, until the the sacred moment of suffering, then we find grace to cry out for Saviour.

Love is the greatest nourishment of the soul. To be loved creates a strong back bone, joy, peace and soundness.

Courage is ... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

None preaches better than the ant and she says nothing.

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

I would never say never to returning to comedy.

I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.

I am a believer in change peu a' peu (little by little) since drastic changes, including lots of changes made all at once, are often the sort of modifications that don't stick.

Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know...Head and heart...You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other.