Every Picture One Paints Involves Not Painting

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.

Most Painting In The European Tradition Was Painting The Mask. Modern Art Rejected All That. Our Subject Matter Was The Person Behind The Mask.

Painting That Does Not Radiate Feeling Is Not Worth Looking At. The Deepest-and Rarest-of Grown-up Pleasures Is True Feeling.

Each Brushstroke Is A Decision.

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.