The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

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.

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

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

The past does not influence me; I influence it.

Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.

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.