By The Time You Establish Your Priorities,

A Canvas Is Never Empty.

An Empty Canvas Is Full Only If You Want It To Be Full.

Screwing Things Up Is A Virtue. Being Correct Is Never The Point. I Have An Almost Fanatically Correct Assistant, And By The Time She Re-spells My Words And Corrects My Punctuation, I Can't Read What I Wrote. Being Right Can Stop All The Momentum Of A Very Interesting Idea.

Sometimes I Have Taken Photographs And Just Felt So Excited That I Could Barely Hold The Camera Steady, And The Photo Was Boring.

I'm Not So Facile That I Can Accomplish Or Find Out What I Want To Know Or Explore Enough Of The Possibilities And A Way Of Making A Painting, Say, In Just One Painting Or Two Paintings.