Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing one's sensations.

Writing has laws of perspective of light and shade just as painting does or music. If you are born knowing them fine. If not learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems seeing a painting listening to some music some opera which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured such as poetry music painting public speaking.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting existing as material in space not immaterial in time.

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression whether it was through music or acting or dancing or painting or writing.