The Problems Of Inventing A New Language

For A Painter As Abstract As Myself, The Collages Offer A Way Of Incorporating Bits Of The Everyday World Into Pictures.

The Public's Appetite For Famous People Is A Mouth As Big As A Mountain.

Every Picture One Paints Involves Not Painting Others.

I Started With Straight, Basic, Symbolic Structures. My Problem Now Is The Opposite; As I Get Older, I Try To Make My Paintings More Contrapuntal, Richer.

In Printmaking, I Essentially Use The Same Process As In Painting With One Important Exception ... To Try, With Sensitivity To The Medium To Emphasize What Printing Can Do Best ... Better Than Say, Painting Or Collaging Or Watercolour Or Drawing Or Whatever ... Otherwise, The Artist Expresses The Same Vision In Graphics That He Does In His Other Work.