"Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'"

"Anything simple always interests me."

"Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs."

"Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill."

"Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off."

"That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward."

"True wisdom begins when you realize the silence between the notes creates the music."

"In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible."