An Empty Canvas Is Full Only If

Well, I Like Way Downtown Near The Battery. I Lived Down There At This Time And For, I Guess, The Following Well, This Is Where I Moved To Uptown And I've Been Here For Four Years And This Is 1965.

I Don't Want A Picture To Look Like Something It Isn't. I Want It To Look Like Something It Is.

I'm Not So Facile That I Can Accomplish Or Find Out What I Want To Know Or Explore Enough Of The Possibilities And A Way Of Making A Painting, Say, In Just One Painting Or Two Paintings.

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.

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.