1. “I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let’ see if I can don it.”
2. “Painting… in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.”
3. “The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.”
4. “I am never free f the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.”
5. “I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.”
6. “I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.”
7. “I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.”
8. “My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a brake occurs. the breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there’s a consistency that hold out, but is hard to define.”
9. “As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.”
10. “I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it.”
