This Is A Portrait Of Iris Clert

Even At This Late Date, I Go Into My Studio, And I Think 'is This Going To Be It? Is It The End?' You See, Nearly Everything Terrorizes Me. When An Artist Loses That Terror, He's Through.

Painting Is Always Strongest When In Spite Of Composition, Color, Etc., It Appears As A Fact, Or An Inevitability, As Opposed To A Souvenir Or Arrangement.

I Really Feel Sorry For People Who Think Things Like Soap Dishes Or Mirrors Or Coke Bottles Are Ugly, Because They're Surrounded By Things Like That All Day Long, And It Must Make Them Miserable.

If I Declare It To Be So, Then This Is A Portrait.

So That Ideas Of Sort Of Relaxed Symmetry Have Been Something For Years That I Have Been Concerned With Because I Think That Symmetry Is A Neutral Shape As Opposed To A Form Of Design.