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

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

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

The price for living the life I have -- for any serious, devoted person, is that at times one must live alone, or feel alone. I think loneliness is associated in many people's minds when they think about success.

I wanted things that I couldn't at times articulate.

You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once.

Every canvas is a journey all its own.