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.

I am not a juicy painter.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

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.

What you have to do is break all the rules.

My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.

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