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.

I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. I see no reason for painting but that. If I have anything to offer, it is my emotional contact with the place where I live and the people I do.

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

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

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. If I have an emotion, before I die, that's deeper than any emotion that I've ever had, then I will paint a more powerful picture that will have nothing to do with just technique, but will go beyond it.

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.