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.

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.

The conceptual and politically-driven art so popular and considered to be the forefront of contemporary art today is limited by its topicality and will lose its 'punch' when topical concerns move on to other interests.

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?

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

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

I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the painting will lack power.