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.

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

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

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.

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.

It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

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