Doing What You Were Born To Do

What I Say Is That We're Capable Of A Transcendent Response, And I Think It Makes Us Happy. And I Do Think Beauty Produces A Transcendent Response.

When I First Made A Grid I Happened To Be Thinking Of The Innocence Of Trees And Then This Grid Came Into My Mind And I Thought It Represented Innocence, And I Still Do, And So I Painted It And Then I Was Satisfied. I Thought, This Is My Vision.

Pollock Was Terrific. I Think He Freed Himself Of All Kinds Of Worry About This World. Ran Around And Dripped, And Then He Managed To Express Ecstasy.

The Enormous Pitfall Is Devotion To Oneself Instead Of To Life. All Works That Are Self-devoted Are Absolutely Ineffective.

I Would Like My Work To Be Recognized As Being In The Classical Tradition (coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), As Representing The Ideal In The Mind. Classical Art Cannot Possibly Be Eclectic. One Must See The Ideal In One's Own Mind. It Is Like A Memory - An Awareness -of Perfection.