There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.
There was very little art in my childhood.
It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something.
I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
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.