Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.

I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities.