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

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

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.

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. If I have an emotion, before I die, that's deeper than any emotion that I've ever had, then I will paint a more powerful picture that will have nothing to do with just technique, but will go beyond it.

I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.

I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area alive. It pulsates because of that.

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.