I Think That The Very Earliest Influence

To Put Down An Ideogram Of A Table So That People Will Recognize It As A Table Is Not The Work Of A Painter, But To Sense It For A Moment As A Magic Carpet With A Leg Hanging Down At Each Corner Is The Beginning Of A Painter's Imagination.

Garden Work Consists Much More In Uprooting Weeds Than In Planting Seed. This Applies Also To Teaching.

I Never Work With An Audience - I Can't Do This. The Process Depends On The Highest Degree Of Nervous Concentration.

I'm Hoping To Make A New Thing For The World That Remains In The Mind Like A New Species Of Living Thing.

If You Pass Something Every Day And It Has A Little Character, It Begins To Intrigue You.