Try to bring me down, but you will never succeed because I'm always moving upward. Maybe not before, but now. . . I am.
He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.
I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for much of my adult life. A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.
I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.
I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.