Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

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

The past does not influence me; I influence it.

You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.

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!

Art should not have to be a certain way.

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