An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.

Vassar Clements was a special artist and notable among the early pioneers as well as for his remarkable work in recent years.

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

In my early work, our molecular views of telomeres were first focused on the DNA.