Painting That Does Not Radiate Feeling Is

Every Intelligent Painter Carries The Whole Culture Of Modern Painting In His Head. It Is His Real Subject, Of Which Everything He Paints In Both An Homage And A Critique, And Everything He Says Is A Gloss.

Most Painting In The European Tradition Was Painting The Mask. Modern Art Rejected All That. Our Subject Matter Was The Person Behind The Mask.

If You Can't Find Your Inspiration By Walking Around The Block One Time, Go Around Two Times-but Never Three.

To End Up With A Canvas That Is No Less Beautiful Than The Empty Canvas Is To Begin With.

For Twenty Years I Read A Book A Day, From The Time I Was Seven Until I Was Twenty-seven.