I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.

I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.

ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.

Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids.

I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of the seasons. It's really something. These guys were great masters and of course the use of space.

I do like certain kinds of frames for work. That's important.

If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it to my list.