The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue

Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.

Sometimes the mind relives things very clearly for us...There are roads out of secret places within us along which we all must move as we go to touch others.

Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time.

The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?

You put down one color and it calls for an answer. You have to look at it like a melody.