I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.

I have meant what I have done. Or I have often meant what I have done. Or I have sometimes meant what I have done. Or I have tried to mean what I was doing.

My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. I guess, in painting, it would amount to different kinds of space being represented in it.

I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.

Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.

I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.