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

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.

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.

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

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 don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.