The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whethe….

I'm from such an old family, it's been condemned..

Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world..

The mind paints before the brush..

How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!.

When I eat better, I perform better..

Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes..

The more music you love, the happier you will be..

The future is not something to be predicted, it's something to be achieved..

It is in your nature to destroy yourselves..

When in doubt, make a red painting..

Studying the behavior of large whales has been likened to astronomy. The observer glimpses his subjects, often at long range; he cannot do experiment….

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes..

I do date quite frequently..

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, mo….

I'm happy to talk to anybody about anything..

Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up..

Presents, I often say, endear absents..

An unshared happiness is not happiness..

Most of us are better when things go better..

I work with the dead, but I am working for the living..