The Main Thing Is Not To Be

I Dislike A Picture That Is Too Suave Or Too Skilfully Done. But, Contrariwise, I Also Dislike A Picture That Looks Too Inept Or Blundering.

Sometimes Images May Emerge From Some Chord In My Subconscious, The Way A Dream Might. Even In Those Paintings Where An Image Unconsciously Develops, A Certain Kind Of Experience Is Usually Necessary In Order To Perceive It.

If One Were To Ask A Painter What He Felt About Anything, His Just Response - Though He Seldom Makes It - Would Be To Paint It, And In Painting, To Find Out.

Painting Is A Medium In Which The Mind Can Actualize Itself; It Is A Medium Of Thought. Thus Painting, Like Music, Tends To Become Its Own Content.

I Feel Most Real To Myself In The Studio.