I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.

Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.

I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.

I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint. I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.

Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.