If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.

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

If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.

If you really want to seriously think about life, and therefore take painting very seriously... and take seriously the joys that it can bring to one, then you want to go to museums. You want to study the great of the past.

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

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.

There are times when I love to play all kinds of complicated games in painting. But this is one case when I need to be fairly straightforward. I'll just try to paint the man, his intelligence, his amiability and his stature, maybe paint him fairly close to humor and try to get it just right.