The Main Thing Is Not To Be

For Twenty Years I Read A Book A Day, From The Time I Was Seven Until I Was Twenty-seven.

I Feel Most Real To Myself In The Studio.

In Printmaking, I Essentially Use The Same Process As In Painting With One Important Exception ... To Try, With Sensitivity To The Medium To Emphasize What Printing Can Do Best ... Better Than Say, Painting Or Collaging Or Watercolour Or Drawing Or Whatever ... Otherwise, The Artist Expresses The Same Vision In Graphics That He Does In His Other Work.

I Have Been Continuously Aware That In Painting, I Am Always Dealing With... A Relational Structure. Which In Turn Makes Permission 'to Be Abstract' No Problem At All.

Sometimes Images May Emerge From Some Chord In My Subconscious, The Way A Dream Might. Even In Those Paintings Where An Image Unconsciously Develops, A Certain Kind Of Experience Is Usually Necessary In Order To Perceive It.