I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. I see no reason for painting but that. If I have anything to offer, it is my emotional contact with the place where I live and the people I do.

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.

What you have to do is break all the rules.

Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.

I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work

If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.

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.