I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

Fill a space in a beautiful way.

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.

I realized that were I to paint flowers small, no one would look at them because I was unknown. So I thought I'll make them big, like the huge buildings going up. People will be startled; they'll have to look at them - and they did.