Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring.

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.

By the time you establish your priorities, there really isn't any fun or need to interest yourself in what you're doing. And this I find disastrous.

An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.