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

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.

I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. I see no reason for painting but that. If I have anything to offer, it is my emotional contact with the place where I live and the people I do.

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

I've tried never to be easily satisfied, and I've been painting like fury now for forty years.... I have a feeling. You paint about as far as your emotions go, and that's about it.

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. 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.