There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.
One can begin a picture and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all.
Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.
It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to haunt.
One hundred artists introduce us to one hundred worlds.
In the beginning I drew and painted from nature in order to know her. Then later, only to fall under her spell. And today, to let her mirror my thoughts and feelings.
I think when a man first discovers that two and two is four, there is 'beauty' in that; and we can see why. But if people stand and look at the moon and one says 'I think it's just beautiful tonight' and the other says 'The moon makes me feel awful' we are both 'clear'. A geometric shape - we know why we like it; and an unreasonable shape; it has a certain mystery that we recognize as real; but it is difficult to put these things in an objective way.
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
When I came back to America, I realized that world music is no joke, it really has a lot to it.
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.