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

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.

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.

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

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

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