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

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 think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work

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.

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

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 love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.