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 can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.

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'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.

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'm a terrible technician, and I have a very hard time painting.