Did You Stop Because It Was Good

In The Studio, I Don't Do A Lot Of Work That Requires Repetitive Activity. I Spend A Lot Of Time Looking And Thinking And Then Try To Find The Most Efficient Way To Get What I Want, Whether It's Making A Drawing Or A Sculpture, Or Casting Plaster Or Whatever.

What Is It That An Artist Does When He Is Left Alone In His Studio? My Conclusion Was That If I Was An Artist And I Was In The Studio, Then Everything I Was Doing In The Studio Should Be Art . . . . From That Point On, Art Became More Of An Activity And Less Of A Product.

I'm Surprised When The Work Appears Beautiful, And Very Pleased. And I Think Work Can Be Very Good And Very Successful Without Being Able To Call It Beautiful, Although I'm Not Clear About That. The Work Is Good When It Has A Certain Completeness; And When It's Got A Certain Completeness, Then It's Beautiful.

The True Artist Helps The World By Revealing Mystic Truths.

Generalised Anger And Frustration Is Something That Gets You In The Studio, And Gets You To Work - Though It's Not Necessarily Evident In Anything That's Finished.