To Do A Drawing For

Every Artist Feels Alone And Isolated, Friends Are Very Important In Terms Of All Sorts Of Definitions Of Oneself. They Tell You What You Are And What They Are Aside From The Intellectual Aspects.

Generally, I Am Opposed To Painting Which Is Concerned With Conceptions Of Simplicity. Everything Looks Busy To Me.

Intention Involves Such A Small Fragment Of Our Consciousness And Of Our Mind And Of Our Life.

In My Early Work, I Tried To Hide My Personality, My Psychological State, My Emotions. This Was Partly Due To My Feelings About Myself And Partly Due To My Feelings About Painting At The Time. I Sort Of Stuck To My Guns For A While But Eventually It Seemed Like A Losing Battle. Finally One Must Simply Drop The Reserve.

In The Place Where I Was A Child, There Were No Artists And There Was No Art, So I Really Didn't Know What That Meant. I Think I Thought It Meant That I Would Be In A Situation Different Than The One That I Was In.