I only like artists older than myself. Time is so important. It's always been the same way, I guess.
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. 
Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw. 
I believe people have to be open to what's happening when they're alive. 
All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist. 
My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good. 
The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also. 
Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art. 
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. 
Time has always been very important in my work. 
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. 
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. 
The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it. 
I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything. 
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 think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract. 
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. 