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"I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me."
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"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show."


"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'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to 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."


"I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad."


"If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window."


"To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible."
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