Western art has a certain relationship to nature.

Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.

Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a while that it was going to be the major movement. But people always drift back to realism. I guess there is a certain security in that.

I don't remember any dream. All I remember is waking up and feeling that there had been a change while I was sleeping.

These days people believe they can go into art and make a living. We didn't have that. The abstract expressionists were older, by the time they even got a show. Now people come right out of school and sell.

Western art has a certain relationship to nature.

You can't say I'm going to become a painter in the same way you say I'm going to become a dentist. Or maybe you can nowadays. But it's an endeavor.