I Don't Resent Being A

I Follow The Rules Until I Go Against Them All.

I Have Always Been Concerned With Painting That Simultaneously Insists On A Flat Surface And Then Denies It.

Whatever The Medium, There Is The Difficulty, Challenge, Fascination And Often Productive Clumsiness Of Learning A New Method: The Wonderful Puzzles And Problems Of Translating With New Materials.

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 Art.

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 It Was Agonizing. I Looked At Reproductions. I Stared At Matisse. I Stared At The Old Masters. I Stared At The Quattrocento. And I Thought To Myself - Don't Push It! If You Try Too Hard To Get At Something, You Almost Push It Away.