“By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined i...” — John Dewey Quote

“By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.”

“Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.”

“No man's credit is as good as his money.”

“The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.”

“The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.”

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”

“Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.”

“I have a hard time with abstractions. I always go to the personal.”

“My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.”

“When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.”

“I often avoid using the terms 'figuration' and 'abstraction' because I've always tried to have it both ways. I want the experience of looking at one of my paintings to be similar to the process of making the painting - you go from the big picture to something very intense and detailed, and then back again.”

“Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.”