Preconceived notions and rules are antithetical to the creative process.

The art business is a rarified business and appeals to an audience capable of spending money on a luxury. Too often the atmosphere in a gallery borders on snobbishness.

Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers.

No amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry.

The voice will always be heard, even if the song is very different.

I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying my paintings.

I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.