What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it - drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.