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

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.

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 think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

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 don't really have studios. I wander around - around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites 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.