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Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.

I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.'

I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one.

I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

We are going to see a burst of creativity that will make the Renaissance pale in comparison.

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.