The Trouble With Being Poor Is That

Art Never Seems To Make Me Peaceful Or Pure.

I'm Not Interested In 'abstracting' Or Taking Things Out Or Reducing Painting To Design, Form, Line, And Color. I Paint This Way Because I Can Keep Putting More Things In It - Drama, Anger, Pain, Love, A Figure, A Horse, My Ideas About Space. Through Your Eyes It Again Becomes An Emotion Or Idea.

I See The Canvas And I Begin... It's A Necessary Evil To Get Into The Work, And It's Pretty Marvelous To Be Able To Get Out Of It.

If You're An Artist, The Problem Is To Make A Picture Work Whether You Are Happy Or Not.

And Then There Is That One-man Movement, Marcel Duchamp For Me A Truly Modern Movement Because It Implies That Each Artist Can Do What He Thinks He Ought To A Movement For Each Person And Open For Everybody.