I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

Her husband, he's German you know. When her husband came to me, I said, 'John, you don't mind me painting your wife.' And he said, 'No, that's fine, just don't paint her nude.

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it ... I always want to see the third dimension of something ... I want to come alive with the object.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.

I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.