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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.

The value of writing about art is its effect on the imagination. Paintings allow us to inhabit another culture, place, and time period, and address the issues of those time periods that resonate with our own time.

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines.

People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.