Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it.

I absolutely hate technology, and I'm computer illiterate, and I never use any labor-saving devices although I'm not convinced that a computer is a labor-saving device.

I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.