I work from fatigue to fatigue at my age there's only so much daylight left.

The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.

Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.

Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.

The story is the first thing and the last thing.

I paint life as I would like it to be.