"To paint involves a certain crisis, or at least a crucial moment of sensation or release.By crisis by no means limite…"

"I'm drawn to the primitive, the ritual and fetish elements."

"For myself the past is the source (for all art is vitally contemporary)."

"Each line is now the actual experience with its own innate history. It does not illustrate — it is the sensation of i…"

"I think of myself as a Romantic Symbolist."

"I show things in flux."

"I respond to the Greek love of metamorphosis."

"I work in waves because I'm impatient. It has to be done. I take liberties."

"When I work I work very fast, but preparing the work can take any length."

"Probably even more than the architecture I'd be drawn to landscape. That's my first love, landscape.. .All kinds of l…"