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.

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 am not a juicy painter.

Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

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

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.