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I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.