I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.

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 don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.

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

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

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.

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