You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.

To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in.

You instinctively like what you can't do.

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?