Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.

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.

With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over the ice of a small pond or against a windowpane. Watercolour perfectly expresses the free side of my nature.

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

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

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.