I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet feel a long sleep is somehow earned by those of us who live on the edge.

I do not paint nature. I am nature.

A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements.

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.