“What you see is what you see”

“Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.”

“I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.”

“No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the...”

“I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.”

“Only what can be seen there [in the painting] is there.. .What you see is what you see.”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“They make me...they make me think of being stuck somewhere? I don't know, like weighted down, but then these patches...”

“In painting, three things must be considered - the position of the viewer, the position of the object viewed, and the position of the light that illuminates the object.”

“Talent is nothing more than a pursued interest.”

“We speak the truth because we live in truth.”

“There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.”

“But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.”