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.

Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of this, I found five years had gone by.

In art one idea is as good as another.

The past does not influence me; I influence it.

I have to change to stay the same.

Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.