“When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a field or whatever. Merely think here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape.”

“When a person begins to paint, think what he has to struggle with. The bare outline of the head, the modeling of each individual part, the color, and the manipulation of the paint.”

“What name for this object, made in a dance? Beyond place, it is the landscape of my soul, conceived in the spirit of music, born on canvas in the medium of paint to give voice and form to a meditation in the realm of Nature.”

“Talent is overrated… there are thousands of people with talent and ‘visual circuitry’ – it’s what you do with the talent that counts.”

“Never reveal everything in a painting; leave half out. You must leave mystery for the viewer.”