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

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

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

I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

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 surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

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.