Everybody Knows That Abstract Art Can Be

The Big Tradition, I Think, Is Unity. And I Have That In Mind; And With That, You Know, You Could Break All The Traditions- All The Other So-called Rules, Because They Are Stylistic.. And Most Are Not True. As Long As The Marks Are Related To One Another, There Is Unity. Unity In The Work Itself Depends On Unity Of The Artist's Vision.

When I Met Steve Kaufman, I Thought He Was Gene Simmons, But What An Artist Talent He Is. He Will Be An Art Force In The Art World To Deal With.

I Take A Cliche And Try To Organize Its Forms To Make It Monumental. The Difference Is Often Not Great, But It Is Crucial.

Usually I Begin Things Through A Drawing, So A Lot Of Things Are Worked Out In The Drawing. But Even Then, I Still Allow For And Want To Make Changes. I Kind Of Do The Drawing With The Painting In Mind, But It's Very Hard To Guess At A Size Or A Color And The Colors Around It And What It Will Really Look Like. It's Only A Guess At The Beginning, And Then I Try To Refine It.

We're Not Living In A School-of-paris World, You Know, And The Things We Really See In America Are Like This. It's Mcdonald's, It's Not Le Corbusier.