I Think A Painting Should

My Experience With Life Is That It's Very Fragmented. In One Place Certain Kinds Of Thing Occur, And In Another Place A Different Kind Of Thing Occurs. I Would Like My Work To Have Some Vivid Indication Of Those Differences. I Guess, In Painting, It Would Amount To Different Kinds Of Space Being Represented In It.

In My Early Work, I Tried To Hide My Personality, My Psychological State, My Emotions. This Was Partly Due To My Feelings About Myself And Partly Due To My Feelings About Painting At The Time. I Sort Of Stuck To My Guns For A While But Eventually It Seemed Like A Losing Battle. Finally One Must Simply Drop The Reserve.

Art Is Either A Complaint Or Appeasement.

I'm Not Sure What 'coming Out Right' Means. It Often Means That What You Do Holds A Kind Of Energy That You Wouldn't Just Put There, That Comes About Through Grace Of Some Sort.

I'm Not Looking For Images, They Just Appear And Take On An Interest. Sometimes You Look At A Thing And It Has No Interest And Then You See It In A Different Way And It Has Another Meaning. Or Something That Was Of No Use Will Become Useful.