All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.
Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look
Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.
Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.
All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
California is always in my mind.