I wanted things that I couldn't at times articulate..

There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go..

One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronized with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute..

A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image. For my own work, when a picture looks labored and overworked, and y….

A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image..

I'd rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do..

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject mat….

A picture that is beautiful, or that comes off, or that works, looks as if it was all made at one stroke..

I've explored a variety of directions and themes over the years. But I think in my painting you can see the signature of one artist, the work of one ….

Every so often every artist feels, 'I'll never paint again. The muse has gone out the window.' In 1985, I hardly painted at all for three months, and….

What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What ….

There are many accidents that are nothing but accidents-and forget it. But there are some that were brought about only because you are the person you….

What has made it work, or what makes certain paintings successful or not, has to do with my being a painter and a thinking, feeling person, more than….

Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what's expected of you. That's a formula for dead art, or fashionable….

I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint..

I don't start with a color order, but find the colors as I go..

I had the landscape in my arms as I painted it. I had the landscape in my mind and shoulder and wrist..

The question of sex will take care of itself..

I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it..

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about..

You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and b….