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

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

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 think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.

I am not a juicy painter.

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 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.