The Main Thing Is Not To Be

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.

Every Intelligent Painter Carries The Whole Culture Of Modern Painting In His Head. It Is His Real Subject, Of Which Everything He Paints In Both An Homage And A Critique, And Everything He Says Is A Gloss.

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

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

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