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

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

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in the picture you can look at it directly.

If somehow I can, before I leave this earth, combine my absolutely mad freedom and excitement with truth, then I will have done something.

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

I wanted to get it all down, maybe out of my system. I wanted to be able to say, Everything's possible-if you believe and can get excited.