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

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.

I've tried never to be easily satisfied, and I've been painting like fury now for forty years.... I have a feeling. You paint about as far as your emotions go, and that's about it.

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.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

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