It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

I was frozen. There was nothing else happening for a moment there.

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

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

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.

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.