Nude drawing and nude painting is where you learn the balance of forces and the balance of thrusts.

It's okay to copy someone, to be influenced by a great master, so long as you say it.

I paint the spirit and soul of what I see.

(...) photography opened up quite a little Pandora's box, kiddies. (...) Once we no longer had to depend on drawing and painting to record our existence — once they became an option — they mutated . . . into a form of expression. And Art for its own sake, God help us, was born.

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

The universe, they say, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty, and bloody-mindedness.