In America The Biggest Is The Best.

Yeah, You Know, You Like It To Come On Like Gangbusters, But You Get Into Passages That Are Very Interesting And Subtle, And Sometimes Your Original Intent Changes Quite A Bit.

Yes, You Know Sometimes, We Started Out Thinking Out How Strange Our Painting Was Next To Normal Painting, Which Was Anything Expressionist. You Forget That This Has Been Thirty Five Years Now And People Don't Look At It As If It Were Some Kind Of Oddity.

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.

There Must Be Something About Art... Almost All Cultures Have Done Art. It's A Refining Of The Senses, Which Are There To Keep Us Alive. As Far As We Know, No Other Animals Do That.

I Don't Think That I'm Over His Influence But They Probably Don't Look Like Picassos; Picasso Himself Would Probably Have Thrown Up Looking At My Pictures.