I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are made or discovered as symbol later.
Nobody knew how to be what they were right.
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.
The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.
Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.
Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.
What keeps things going, what sustains families, what makes work meaningful, what contributes to our wellbeing and what really connects us to Nature is cooperation
Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn on you.
A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to be. In truth, by the act of migration the country was made: by that voluntary act and by the emigrants' ambitions it was built.
That of War and Peace or of Almagestes. All are satisfactory. The only criterion of a work is its validity: that it should grip and that it should last.