It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.

Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint.

It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.

If you can see it, and if you know your color, you can paint it.

So really what I am trying to do is create and understand form. But then too, color enters into it because a lot of things are color changes without a value change, which wouldn't show up if you were just using a non-color medium.