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.

Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness

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

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

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.

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.