I Don't Paint Nature. I Am Nature.

The Secret Of Success Is… To Be Fully Awake To Everything About You.

I Continue To Get Further Away From The Usual Painter's Tools Such As Easel, Palette, Brushes, Etc. I Prefer Sticks, Trowels, Knives And Dripping Fluid Paint Or A Heavy Impasto With Sand, Broken Glass Or Other Foreign Matter Added.

The Modern Artist Is Living In A Mechanical Age And We Have A Mechanical Means Of Representing Objects In Nature Such As The Camera And Photograph. The Modern Artist, It Seems To Me, Is Working And Expressing An Inner World - In Other Words - Expressing The Energy, The Motion, And Other Inner Forces.

When I Say Artist I Mean The Man Who Is Building Things - Creating Molding The Earth - Whether It Be The Plains Of The West - Or The Iron Ore Of Penn. It's All A Big Game Of Construction - Some With A Brush - Some With A Shovel - Some Choose A Pen.

I Have No Fear Of Making Changes, Destroying The Image, Etc., Because The Painting Has A Life Of Its Own.