I Learned You Could Suffer

I Learned You Could Suffer A Terrible Tragedy And Still Be Happy Again.

Inspiration Is For Amateurs. The Rest Of Us Just Show Up And Get To Work. If You Wait Around For The Clouds To Part And A Bolt Of Lightning To Strike You In The Brain, You Are Not Going To Make An Awful Lot Of Work. All The Best Ideas Come Out Of The Process; They Come Out Of The Work Itself.

I Build A Painting By Putting Little Marks Together-some Look Like Hot Dogs, Some Like Doughnuts.

I Did Some Pastels And I Did Other Pieces In Which There Was Just Basically One Color Per Square, And Then They Would Get Bigger And I Could Get 2 Or 3 Colors Into The Square, And Ultimately I Just Started Making Oil Paintings.

It's Like A Magic Well. You Think You Know Everything About [a] Photograph, You Think You've Gotten Everything Out Of It, And All Of A Sudden I See Things In It I'd Never Seen Before.