I read somewhere that Rubens said students should not draw from life, but draw from all the great classic casts. Then you really get the measure of them, you really know what to do. And then, put in your own dimples. Isn't that marvelous!

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

The past does not influence me; I influence it.

The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.