I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.
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.
The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?
To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in.
You instinctively like what you can't do.
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.