And I Think A Painting

You Have To Have The Time To Feel Sorry For Yourself In Order To Be A Good Abstract Expressionist.

I Don't Really Trust Ideas - Especially Good Ones... Rather, I Put My Trust In The Materials That Confront Me, Because They Put Me In Touch With The Unknown.

One Has To Believe In What One Is Doing, One Has To Commit Oneself Inwardly, In Order To Do Painting. Once Obsessed, One Ultimately Carries It To The Point Of Believing That One Might Change Human Beings Through Painting. But If One Lacks This Passionate Commitment, There Is Nothing Left To Do. Then It Is Best To Leave It Alone.

You Can't Make Either Life Or Art, You Have To Work In The Hole In Between, Which Is Undefined. That's What Makes The Adventure Of Painting.

I Was Much Happier When I Had Less Responsibility... When My Only Responsibility Was To My Work And To Myself.