The three attributes I work toward in my paintings are strength, clarity, and conflict.

Strength means the type of picture that arrests your attention from anywhere in a room. A painting that demands your attention and won't let go.

Clarity is speaking [painting] plainly.  Say what you mean and paint like you mean it.  Clarity is also the good friend of editing. Less is more.  Get to the point with as little fuss as possible.

Conflict seems essential to all art. Light and shadow; high note, low note; love, hate.  These varied contrasts create the theater of the art.

I think every picture you make is a culmination of every picture and every thing you have ever seen.