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.

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.

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.

If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.

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

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