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

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.

An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. It prepares an artist to choose his own limitations.

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

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.