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

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.

It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there.

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.

My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in the picture you can look at it directly.