In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.

In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.

It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.

I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the hair from the back of a pig's ear. It's that simple.

Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by.

We are attacked by radio and television and visual communication at such speed and with such force that painting seems very old fashioned ...why shouldn't it be done with that power and gusto [of advertising], with that impact.