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.

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

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.

I am not a juicy painter.

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