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I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.

I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want to paint people. I want to paint something I have never seen before. I don't want to make what I'm looking at. I want the fragments.

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well.

The things that I paint are things that I know very well.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment.

I slowly dismantled the act of painting, to consider the possibility that no-thing ever really transcends its immediate environment.

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.