Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.

I surrender to the 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 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 dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

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.