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.

I've tried never to be easily satisfied, and I've been painting like fury now for forty years.... I have a feeling. You paint about as far as your emotions go, and that's about it.

I am not a juicy painter.

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

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work