There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

In relations with people, as in art, if you always stick to style, manners, and what will work, and you're never caught off guard, then some beautiful experiences never happen.

What has made it work, or what makes certain paintings successful or not, has to do with my being a painter and a thinking, feeling person, more than my sex, color, height, origin.

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

One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronized with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute.

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

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