Each Brushstroke Is A Decision.

It's Possible To Paint A Monumental Picture That's Only 10 Inches Wide, If One Has A Sense Of Scale, Which Is Very Different From A Sense Of Size.

It's Not That The Creative Act And The Critical Act Are Simultaneous. It's More Like You Blurt Something Out And Then Analyze It.

In A Way, Painting Is Like Wine: It Is As Old, As Simple, As Primitive And As Varied. Like Wine, It Is A Very Specific Means Of Expression, With A Limited Vocabulary, But Vast In Its Expressive Potential.

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

For Twenty Years I Read A Book A Day, From The Time I Was Seven Until I Was Twenty-seven.