“Life is Unshaped Draw your Canvas.”

“It's like this - you are in front of your canvas, you hand holds the paint, ready, raised. The canvas waits, waits, empty and white - but all the time it knows what it wants. So - what does it want, anyway? My hand comes near, my eyes begin to transform the waiting canvas; and when - with my hands holding the paint and my eyes seeing the forms - I touch the canvas, it trembles, it comes to life.”

“Life is a great big canvas. Throw all the paint you can at it.”

“Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.”

“I've had a period of drawing on canvas in black – with some of my early images coming thru -, think the non-objectivists will find them disturbing – and the kids who think it simple to splash a 'Pollock' out.”

“With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.”

“How to Draw a Picture (XII)

Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.”

“An invisible drawing made in the air. Make a drawing behind your back. Make a stolen painting.”

“Draw your salary before spending it.”

“Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.”