I'm Sure We Don't Read Old Paintings

I Think That In The Last Twenty Years Or So, There's Been A New Kind Of Honesty In Painting Where Painters Have Been Very Proud Of Paint And Have Let It Behave Openly.

I Feel As Though The World Is A Friendly Boy Walking Along In The Sun.

I Really Feel Sorry For People Who Think Things Like Soap Dishes Or Mirrors Or Coke Bottles Are Ugly, Because They're Surrounded By Things Like That All Day Long, And It Must Make Them Miserable.

I Always Have A Good Reason For Taking Something Out But I Never Have One For Putting Something In. And I Don't Want To, Because That Means That The Picture Is Being Painted Predigested.

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.