I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.

Whatever it was that I felt was the weak link in my previous project gave me inspiration for the next one.

I met a redneck on a Grecian isle who did the Goat Dance very well.

I create by feeling rather than by intellectualizing.

So many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way.

I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist.

You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows.