If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

You instinctively like what you can't do.

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.

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.

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

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

People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white as well as the black and the white is just as important.