I prefer living in color.
Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.
Anything simple always interests me.
I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.
There are enough no smoking places now.
To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.
Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.
You must plan to be spontaneous.
I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
