I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.
The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.
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.
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.
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.
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.
If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.
Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it'll soon happen elsewhere.