The Spot Paintings, The Spin

Even As A Kid In Drawing Class, I Had Real Ambition. I Wanted To Be The Best In The Class, But There Was Always Some Other Feller Who Was Better; So I Thought, It Cant Be About Being The Best, It Has To Be About The Drawing Itself, What You Do With It. Thats Kind Of Stuck With Me.

Making Art, Good Art, Is Always A Struggle. It Can Make You Happy When You Pull It Off. There's No Better Feeling. It's Beauteous. But It's Always About Hard Work And Inspiration And Sweat And Good Ideas.

But I Always Liked The Fact That You Get These Totally Unacceptable Images, But They're Taken By A Really Expensive Photographer, With Great Light, And In Terms Of The Quality Of The Photograph It's A Great Photograph, But In Terms Of Imagery It's Unacceptable, And I Like That Contradiction.

For Artists It's A Lot Easier To Make Art In Bad Times Than It Is In Good Times. When You've Got No Money It's Easy To Just Drink Your Way Through It And Make Great Art. But If You're Making Lots Of Money It Can Be Very Problematic.

You Can Always Tell A Great Painting, Because When You Get Close There Are All These Nervous Marks.