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.

If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.

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.

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.

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 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.