I'd rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do.

Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.

I had the landscape in my arms as I painted it. I had the landscape in my mind and shoulder and wrist.

Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what's expected of you. That's a formula for dead art, or fashionable art.

There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go.

I don't start with a color order, but find the colors as I go.

A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.