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

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

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.

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.