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.

I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area alive. It pulsates because of that.

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.

I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.