To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.
It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.
At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.
I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.
The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.
I mean, Jane Wyman did a lot of silly parts for years and then all of a sudden went serious and was tremendous.
I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large.
It is often the easiest move that completes the game.