The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an art sense, and probably some additional quality in a biographical sense.
I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get my mind more on painting.
It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than creating things himself.
If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.
Worry, about the 'thousand and one' details entailed. My one-track mind has to be relieved of these worries completely or I cannot get started working on my paintings, or even get to sleep at night.
It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.
I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.
There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.
When I was taking my canoeing lessons I was given this oar to practice with, and I decided to have everyone sign it. All the cast and crew signed it and now I'm going to frame it.
The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous.