“If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.”

My favorite symbols were those which I didn’t understand.

It seems tome they are more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.

Painting is self-discovery.

I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant.

I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling…

All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces,

Feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.

You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.

I never use nature as a starting point.

Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature.

The immediate presence of terror and fear.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

I saw them with my bodily eyes as clearly as I see you. And when they departed, I used to weep and wish they would take me with them.

I turn you out of doors tenant desire you pay no rent I turn you out of doors all my best rooms are yours the brain and heart depart.

Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

What a funny world we live in people live their days in pursuit of filling their hands with things only to depart this life empty handed.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.