The Creative Habit Is Like A Drug.

Clever People Can Copy The Handwriting Of An Artist - It's Like Forging A Person's Signature.

If An Artist Tries Consciously To Do Something To Others, It Is To Stretch Their Eyes, Their Thoughts, To Something They Would Not See Or Feel If The Artist Had Not Done It. To Do This, He Has To Stretch His Own First.

The Observation Of Nature Is Part Of An Artist's Life, It Enlarges His Form [and] Knowledge, Keeps Him Fresh And From Working Only By Formula, And Feeds Inspiration.

I Have Always Been Very Interested In Landscape... I Find That All Natural Forms Are A Source Of Unending Interest - Tree Trunks, The Growth Of Branches From The Trunk, Each Finding Its Own Individual Air-space.

I Find In All The Artists That I Admire Most A Disturbing Element, A Distortion, Giving Evidence Of A Struggle . . . . In Great Art, This Conflict Is Hidden, It Is Unresolved. All That Is Bursting With Energy Is Disturbing - Not Perfect.