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.

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.

You have to learn how to do each book. It's a different world, a different show.

I like the computer! It's a gadget, and I love gadgets. But it's very complicated and I didn't think I'd have the time to learn.

We are creatures like everything else in our world.

People have their own ideas how about they should appear.