One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.
The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.
I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.
I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh.
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.
When I analyse the music, I can get really extreme.
That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.
That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.
Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.
Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.
Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
I can remember walking on the moon.
Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.
Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.
Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.
The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.
I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
