I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

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.

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

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.

Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.

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