I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond.

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

Someone has asked me to paint Biblical pictures, and I say no, I'll not paint something that we know nothing about, might just as well paint something that will happen two thousand years hence.

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

Life is what you make it.