I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.

I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.

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

I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does not make you an artist.

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

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.

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.