But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes.

What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was an artist and I was in the studio, then everything I was doing in the studio should be art . . . . From that point on, art became more of an activity and less of a product.

And sometimes the question that you pose or the project that you start yourself turns into something else, you know, but at least it gets you started.

I thought I might have to give up art, but I couldn't think of anything else to do.

Learn to recognise when you need to know something.

Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.