A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only interested in what you're doing right now.

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

The aim of art is to create space.

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.