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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I try to think and design in color.