In this choice as I look back over more than half a century I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.
It is all very well to copy what one sees but it is far better to draw what...
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately you rape it.
Art is not what you see but what you make others see.
Painting is easy when you don't know how but very difficult when you do.
