If you start with a great peach, there's nothing you're ever going to do that's going to make it any better than when it comes off the tree. In 1970, that was a revolution.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The ripest peach is highest on the tree.
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
I don't think everything is going to get peachy ever. But I think we have to fight for what we believe in.
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.