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

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'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.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

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

I don't really have studios. I wander around - around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.