Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect.

Jerry like to run a tight ship as far as discipline is concerned, but I know him to be understanding and fair when it come to correcting their behavior.

The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious.

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.