"I have a sort of inner sense for scale." — Ellsworth Kelly

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.

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

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

Gray goes with gold. Gray goes with all colors. I've done gray-and-red paintings, and gray and orange go so well together. It takes a long time to make gray because gray has a little bit of color in it.

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

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

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I have a sort of inner sense for scale.