I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never a time thatI questioned it or doubted it.... For forty years, I wanted to jump out of windows.

What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't people.

Character is the architect of the being.

When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something else.

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

We must create our own world.