Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither. At every point in nature there is something to see. My work contains similar possibilities for the changing focus of the eye.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

There was very little art in my childhood.

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in.