The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.

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

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.

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

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

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.