A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.