The negative is just as important as the positive.

I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.

The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct and uncompromising.

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.