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

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 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 am not a juicy painter.

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.