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I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.

I have a sort of inner sense for scale.

I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow.

The negative is just as important as the positive.

I don't like mixed colors that much, like plum color or deep, deep colors that are hard to define.

I've always wanted ... I wanted to give people joy.

In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.

In Boston, I developed my eye from the drawing. In Paris, I was fascinated by what my eye saw in the way that Paris is built, its 'measure.'

I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.

I only like artists older than myself. Time is so important. It's always been the same way, I guess.

Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.

I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow.

When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.

I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything.

The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.

I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped.

My forms are geometric, but they don't interact in a geometric sense. They're just forms that exist everywhere, even if you don't see them.

I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.

All my work begins with drawings.

I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets better and richer.

Time has always been very important in my work.

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.

My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.

All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.

I believe people have to be open to what's happening when they're alive.

Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw.

I just feel like I can live on. I hope I can reach 100. I think today if you just keep doing, keep working, that - maybe that's possible.