“The pictures come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worthwhile picture I paint it I do over the picture several times in my mind and when I am ready to paint it I have all the details I need.”

"It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of…
"But clouds bellied out in the sultry heat, the sky cracked open with a crimson gash, spewed flame-and the ancient…
To artists: how do you handle criticism?