Of Course You Can Still Paint Landscape

If You Go Too Far With Naturalism, There Is No Need To Even Organize; Just Look... And Paint What You See Until The Canvas Ends.

In The End Nobody Knows How It's Done — How Art Is Made. It Can't Be Explained. Optical Devices Are Just Tools. Understanding A Tool Doesn't Explain The Magic Of Creation. Nothing Can.

I Was 18 When I First Visited London, I'm Very Provincial Like That, But I Must Confess The Moment I Got To America I Thought: This Is The Place. It Was More Open, With 24-hour Cities And Pubs And Restaurants That Didn't Close.

Modernism In A Way, Early Modernism, For Instance, In Pictures, Was Turning Against Perspective And Europe. And All Early Modernism Is Actually From Out Of Europe, When You Think Of Cubism Is African, Is Looking At Africa, Matisse Is Looking At The Arabesque, Oceania. Europe Was The Optical Projection That Had Become Photography, That Had Become Film, That Became Television And It Conquered The World.

Drawing Makes You See Things Clearer, And Clearer And Clearer Still, Until Your Eyes Ache.