Art Never Seems To Make Me Peaceful

Art Never Seems To Make Me Peaceful Or Pure. I Always Seem To Be Wrapped In The Melodrama Of Vulgarity. I Do Not Think... Of Art As A Situation Of Comfort.

Once, After Finishing A Picture, I Thought I Would Stop For Awhile, Take A Trip, Do Things-the Next Time I Thought Of This, I Found Five Years Had Gone By.

And Then There Is That One-man Movement, Marcel Duchamp For Me A Truly Modern Movement Because It Implies That Each Artist Can Do What He Thinks He Ought To A Movement For Each Person And Open For Everybody.

I Feel Sometimes An American Artist Must Feel, Like A Baseball Player Or Something - A Member Of A Team Writing American History.

I Think I'm Painting A Picture Of Two Women But It May Turn Out To Be A Landscape.