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

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

Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.

I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

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 search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

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