Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

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.

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

Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.

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.