When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result.

I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work

I don't paint nature. I am nature.

All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims - the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves.

How do you know when you're finished making love?