A Really Good Picture Looks As If

I Follow The Rules Until I Go Against Them All.

A Picture That Is Beautiful, Or That Comes Off, Or That Works, Looks As If It Was All Made At One Stroke.

The Question Of Sex Will Take Care Of Itself.

What Concerns Me When I Work, Is Not Whether The Picture Is A Landscape, Or Whether It's Pastoral, Or Whether Somebody Will See A Sunset In It. What Concerns Me Is - Did I Make A Beautiful Picture?

I Have Always Been Concerned With Painting That Simultaneously Insists On A Flat Surface And Then Denies It.