I Don't Paint To Live, I Live

An Artist Is Forced By Others To Paint Out Of His Own Free Will.

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.

Every So Often, A Painter Has To Destroy Painting. Cezanne Did It, Picasso Did It With Cubism. Then Pollock Did It. He Busted Our Idea Of A Picture All To Hell. Then There Could Be New Paintings Again.

The Past Does Not Influence Me; I Influence It.

Art Never Seems To Make Me Peaceful Or Pure.