If I Declare It To Be So,

I Don't Think Any One Person, Whether Artist Or Not, Has Been Given Permission By Anyone To Put The Responsibility Of The Way Things Are On Anyone Else

This Was My First Encounter With Art As Art (he Saw 'pinky' Painted By Sir Thomas Lawrence And 'the Blue Boy" Painted By Thomas Gainborough).. ..somebody Actually Made Those Paintings.. ..(it) Was The First Time I Realized You Could Be An Artist.

Very Quickly A Painting Is Turned Into A Facsimile Of Itself When One Becomes So Familiar With With It That One Recognizes It Without Looking At It.

Understanding Is A Form Of Blindness. Good Art, I Think, Can Never Be Understood.

The Only Thing That I Could Get With Chance, And I Never Was Able To Use It, Was That I Would End Up With Something Quite Geometric Or The Spirit That I Was Interested In, Indulging In, Was Gone.