I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.