If I Declare It To Be So,

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.

It's So Easy To Be Undisciplined. And To Be Disciplined Is So Against My Character, My General Nature Anyway, That I Have To Strain A Little Bit To Keep On The Right Track.

Very Quickly A Painting Is Turned Into A Facsimile Of Itself When One Becomes So Familiar With With It That One Recognizes It Without Looking At It.

People Ask Me, 'don't You Ever Run Out Of Ideas?' In The First Place I Don't Use Ideas. Every Time I Have An Idea It's Too Limiting, And Usually Turns Out To Be A Disappointment. But I Haven't Run Out Of Curiosity.

While My Classmates Were Reading Their Textbooks, I Drew In The Margins.