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.

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'm drawing in my head pretty much.

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

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.