Art springs from life but it doesn't mean we have to be tyrannized by it.

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.

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

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

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

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.

What the artist should be asking is, "Am I being honest? Am I being myself? Am I searching for the truth? Am I reporting my experience of life and the world as I see and experience it?