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

There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.

I tend to like things that already exist.

A-not-complete-unit, or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together. One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of a puzzle which could be solved. Remove the signs of "thought." It is not "thought" which needs showing.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

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

One works without thinking how to work.