My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

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

Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.

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

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

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.