I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

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!

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.

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.

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.