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Influenced by his favorites, Romare Bearden and Benny Andrews, Jackson Pollock also was in the mix, "believe it or not,"..."In New York City in the '60s and '70s, art was everywhere."... "The opportunities were there. I was optimistic. Quite frankly, this was America. America is good that way."
-Fine Art Magazine, December 2012
"I was trained as a photo realist, but I'm not hung up on specific labels. What I'm trying to paint are the things that I see or the things that I feel."
"....After a while, I became part of the music, and a painting that started out realistic would break up into spontaneous colors, like the brush was doing it all by itself."
-The Artist's Magazine, March 1991
"I'm getting deeper into the black vernacular. There's a certain pattern that's set up, a certain movement with the hands."
"Every day I'm getting younger in art. I have that competitive edge. When you play sports, you learn to be competitive."
-Daily News, September 24, 1991
"I started painting when I was three years old, went to art design high school in New York, then Syracuse University, graduate school in Rhode Island, etcetera. Then I studied in France and Africa and Mexico. In my last year of school, I was traveling around and studying, and I ran into several artists who said, 'You're going to have to figure out another way to earn a living instead of just depending on art.' But I don't look at art as work. It's something I have to do. It's in my blood."
-Soap Opera Digest, June 25 1991
"Art has always been first for me."
-The New York Amsterdam News, June 17, 1995
