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

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.

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

I am not a juicy painter.

I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

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 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.