Curiosity is the main energy...
~ Robert Rauschenberg
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.
You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist.
So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.
The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
You begin with the possibilities of the material.
An empty canvas is full.
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.
