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

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.

I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.

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.

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

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.

With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over the ice of a small pond or against a windowpane. Watercolour perfectly expresses the free side of my nature.