I Like To Pretend That My Art

But Usually I Begin Things Through A Drawing, So A Lot Of Things Are Worked Out In The Drawing. But Even Then, I Still Allow For And Want To Make Changes.

What Interests Me Is To Paint The Kind Of Antisensitivity That Impregnates Modern Civilization. I Think Art Since Cezanne Has Become Extremely Romantic And Unrealistic, Feeding On Art. It Is Utopian. It Has Less And Less To Do With The World. It Looks Inward - Neo-zen And All That. Pop Art Looks Out Into The World. It Doesn't Look Like A Painting Of Something, It Looks Like The Thing Itself.

My Work Sanitizes It (emotion) But It Is Also Symbolic Of Commercial Art Sanitizing Human Feelings. I Think It Can Be Read That Way.... People Mistake The Character Of Line For The Character Of Art. But It's Really The Position Of Line That's Important, Or The Position Of Anything, Any Contrast, Not The Character Of It.

I Take A Cliche And Try To Organize Its Forms To Make It Monumental. The Difference Is Often Not Great, But It Is Crucial.

There Must Be Something About Art... Almost All Cultures Have Done Art. It's A Refining Of The Senses, Which Are There To Keep Us Alive. As Far As We Know, No Other Animals Do That.