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I try to think and design in color.

It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.

If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it ... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.

My career doesn't depend on painting Bill Clinton.

If you can see it, and if you know your color, you can paint it.

Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.

Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint.

I'm drawing in my head pretty much.

Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry.

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.