Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

You are one of my nicest thoughts.

I want real things ... music that makes holes in the sky.

When I found the beautiful white bones in the desert I picked them up and took them home too...I have used these things to say what is to me the wideness and wonder of the world as I live in it.

I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected.

So I said to myself-I'll paint what I see-what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking the time to look at it-I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.

I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily.