It's Possible To Paint A Monumental Picture

To Pick Up A Cigarette Wrapper Or Wine Label Or An Old Letter Or The End Of A Carton Is My Way Of Dealing With Those Things That Do Not Originate In Me, In My I.

In The End I Realize That Whatever Meaning That Picture Has Is The Accumulated Meaning Of Ten Thousand Brushstrokes, Each One Being Decided As It Was Painted.

An Odd Contradiction, If The Layman Were Correct In His Unconscious Assumption That An Artist Begins With Reality And Ends With Art: The Converse Is True - To The Degree That This Dichotomy Has Any Truth - The Artist Begins With Art, And Through It Arrives At Reality.

If You Can't Find Your Inspiration By Walking Around The Block One Time, Go Around Two Times-but Never Three.

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