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

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

My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.

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.

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

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.