So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

I once got a little camera to use for details of architecture and so forth but the photo was always so different from the perspective the eye gives, I gave it up.

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.

I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.

When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!