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

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 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.

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

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

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

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