As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
I love deliberately badly written books.
The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
I always start a painting with the sky.
It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden.
As an artist, it's possible to get tired of yourself.
In art one idea is as good as another.
I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
All my work begins with drawings.
One works without thinking how to work.
Location is all about the efficiency of work for me.
I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.
Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.
Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.
