Reactionary: One who wants the rules enforced so nobody can take his pile away from him the way he got it from others.
Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.
I like living in the 20th century. . . to me the world has never been more beautiful. I am trying to paint the real world I live in, as beautifully as I can with my own eyes.
Sometimes I'll drive around for months despair, nothing, nothing, then suddenly I will see something that seizes me. . . a shape, a combination of shapes, a play of light or shadows and I send up a prayer because I know I have the germ of a picture.
Everybody gets inspired. We all have these moments. It just depends on whether you've got the ability to seize it.
I feel it's just some sort of game if it's just abstract.
I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully.
The rustling of the leaves is like a low hymn to nature.
Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created, and something of this process is repeated in every childhood.
How do we thank an angel? Somehow I don’t think a fruit basket will do the trick. " ~ Amun
So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.