My Work Is Largely Concerned With Relations

My Experience With Life Is That It's Very Fragmented. In One Place Certain Kinds Of Thing Occur, And In Another Place A Different Kind Of Thing Occurs. I Would Like My Work To Have Some Vivid Indication Of Those Differences. I Guess, In Painting, It Would Amount To Different Kinds Of Space Being Represented In It.

Art As A Fantasy Has Been One Of My Earliest Experiences. I Suppose A Lot Of My Childhood Was A Fantasy That Involved Getting Away From Things I Didn't Like. Fortunately It Had Some Relationship To Reality So That Later I Was Able To, To Some Extent, Act As I Imagined I Might.

I Decided That If My Work Contained What I Could Identify As A Likeness To Other Work, I Would Remove It.

Whatever I Do Seems Artificial And False, To Me.

That’s What Painting Does; It Organizes Vision In A Certain Way Or Suggests That Certain Things Be Paid Attention To And Certain Other Things Not Be Paid Attention To. It Functions In That Way To A Certain Extent In Our Civilization.