I Don't Really Trust Ideas - Especially

I Don't Think Of Myself As Making Art. I Do What I Do Because I Want To, Because Painting Is The Best Way I've Found To Get Along With Myself.

Basically Painting Is Total Idiocy.

By The Time You Establish Your Priorities, There Really Isn't Any Fun Or Need To Interest Yourself In What You're Doing. And This I Find Disastrous.

I Usually Work In A Direction Until I Know How To Do It, Then I Stop, At The Time That I Am Bored Or Understand - I Use Those Words Interchangeably - Another Appetite Has Formed.

This Was My First Encounter With Art As Art (he Saw 'pinky' Painted By Sir Thomas Lawrence And 'the Blue Boy" Painted By Thomas Gainborough).. ..somebody Actually Made Those Paintings.. ..(it) Was The First Time I Realized You Could Be An Artist.