“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”

“Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.”