It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure.

I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships among them? Those relationships are everything.

I wanted everybody to see a sunrise and be knocked out by the miracle of it, the world being created every morning.

I almost always see what I didn't achieve, to a smaller or greater extent.

If I keep coming back to a painting and there's a little something that bothers me, I know I'm not going to get away with it. I'm going to have to fix it, change it, whatever it is, to something that I'm comfortable with, that doesn't make me itch when I look at it.

We are creatures like everything else in our world.

Every book is a unique experience.