I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.
I'm the kind of guy who can't keep a plant alive for a week, let alone a relationship.
I've had several really tangible dreams about UFOs, and they've been amazing!
Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!
It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.
The best way to know God is to love many things.
Seeing that picture, for me, was like Chartres Cathedral.
You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.
I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
