1. “You can’t leave humanity out. If you didn’t have humanity, you wouldn’t have anything.”
2. “All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you’ve gone too far.”
3. “You know it’s very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.”
4. “Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom”
5. “I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don’t think of anything except the subject and me.”
6. “Lucky for me, as old as I am, I can still change.”
7. “If you’re sufficiently tenacious and interested, you can accomplish what you want to accomplish in this world.”
8. “Nobody knows what makes good art As an artist, when it happens, you’re grateful, then you get on with it.”
9. “Whether I’m painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. even if I’m not working, I’m still analyzing people.”
10. “The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.”
