When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.

That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.