If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.

I am not a juicy painter.

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.

If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.

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

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