Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

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.

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

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

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.

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.

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