Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.

All my work begins with drawings. I don’t labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line. I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.

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.

The paintings to me are always canvas, sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood also.

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

In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.

The negative is just as important as the positive.