In The Brush Doing What It Is

I Almost Never Start With An Image. I Start With A Painting Idea, An Impulse, Usually Derived From My Own World.

It May Be That The Deep Necessity Of Art Is The Examination Of Individual's And Society's Self-deception.

The Public's Appetite For Famous People Is A Mouth As Big As A Mountain.

A Main Part Of The Struggle Of Art Has Been To Make An Art That Is Direct, Simple, Humane, Unconnected With Powers That Be In Their Essence... To The Degree That It Is Connected With The Bourgeoisie Via The Marketplace And So On Is Not Necessarily An Artist's Problem.

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.