"I have just had my first lesson in Chinese brush from my friend and artist Teng Kwei. The tree is no more solid in the earth, breaking into lesser solids in the earth, breaking into lesser solids bathed in chiaroscuro. There is pressure and release. Each movement, like tracks in the snow, is recorded and often loved for itself. The Great Dragon is breathing sky, thunder and shadow; wisdom and spirit vitalized. All is in motion now.. .One step backward into the past and the tree in front of my studio in Seattle is all rhythm, lifting, springing upward."

“Two men dressed in white jeans with white caps on their heads.. ..climbing over a large sign of white letters. Of course, the words spell something, but that is unimportant. What is important is their white, and the white of the letters.”

“At a time when experimentation expresses itself in all forms of life, search becomes the only valid expression of the spirit.”

“Every artist's problem today is: What will we do with the human?”

“White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity.”

“My first lesson in relativity: ..we had a still life set-up to paint. Suddenly I saw that the pitcher was so big and the glass was so big. From that time on everything was all right.”

“An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.”