I don't really have studios. I wander around - around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

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.

Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.

I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.

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

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