I have worked to free shape from its ground, and then to work the shape so that it has a definite relationship to the space around it; so that it has a clarity and a measure within itself of its parts (angles, curves, edges and mass); and so that, with color and tonality, the shape finds its own space and always demands its freedom and separateness.

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.

I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.

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

I believe people have to be open to what's happening when they're alive.

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

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