I am not a juicy painter.

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 search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work

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.

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

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.