I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

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

I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there.

I wanted to get it all down, maybe out of my system. I wanted to be able to say, Everything's possible-if you believe and can get excited.

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

Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

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