I said it would be better if we weren’t friends, not that I didn’t want to be.
There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.
Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
The more an artist works the more there is to do.
The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea. . . The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.
The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not.
People who enjoy what they do, invariably do it well.
FACT!: I wanna live in a castle.
The process of drawing is. . . the process of putting the visual intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting and sculpture. . . the artist makes clear to himself and not to the spectator what he is doing. It is a soliloquy before it becomes communication.
The Beatles are now history, and it would be unhealthy to try to make my way as a former member. I must admit I occasionally listen to our records, but usually it's not deliberate. I'm more concerned with the present, with working out my own individual style and producing something new and worthwhile.