I'm Hoping To Make A New Thing

To Put Down An Ideogram Of A Table So That People Will Recognize It As A Table Is Not The Work Of A Painter, But To Sense It For A Moment As A Magic Carpet With A Leg Hanging Down At Each Corner Is The Beginning Of A Painter's Imagination.

Garden Work Consists Much More In Uprooting Weeds Than In Planting Seed. This Applies Also To Teaching.

Ideally, One Should Have More Material Than One Can Possibly Cope With.

I Go Out Each Morning And Draw. I Can't Really Start A Painting In The Morning Until I've Done A Drawing.

I Think That The Very Earliest Influence Was A Horror Of Having To Work In A Bank Or An Office, A Desire For A Free And Creative Life.