Good Artists Copy, Great Artists

In Life You Throw A Ball. You Hope It Will Reach A Wall And Bounce Back So You Can Throw It Again. You Hope Your Friends Will Provide That Wall.

When You Begin A Picture You Often Make Some Pretty Discoveries. You Must Be On Guard Against These. Destroy The Thing, Do It Over Several Times. In Each Destroying Of A Beautiful Discovery, The Artist Does Not Really Suppress It, But Rather Condenses It, Makes It More Substantial. What Comes Out In The End Is The Result Of Discarded Finds. Otherwise You Become Your Own Connoisseur.

Others Have Seen What Is And Asked Why. I Have Seen What Could Be And Asked Why Not.

To Make Oneself Hated Is More Difficult Than To Make Oneself Loved.

Go And Do The Things You Can't. That Is How You Get To Do Them.