One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

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.

I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.

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.