Painting Is Always Strongest When In Spite

Understanding Is A Form Of Blindness. Good Art, I Think, Can Never Be Understood.

I Think That In The Last Twenty Years Or So, There's Been A New Kind Of Honesty In Painting Where Painters Have Been Very Proud Of Paint And Have Let It Behave Openly.

Even At This Late Date, I Go Into My Studio, And I Think 'is This Going To Be It? Is It The End?' You See, Nearly Everything Terrorizes Me. When An Artist Loses That Terror, He's Through.

There Was A Whole Language That I Could Never Make Function For Myself In Relationship To Painting, And That Was Attitudes Like Tortured, Struggle, Pain.

It's When You've Found Out How To Do Certain Things, That It's Time To Stop Doing Them, Because What's Missing Is That You're Not Including The Risk.