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.

Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts (grows as it were) offers no clue as to what its state or form or nature was at any previous time. Physical and Metaphysical. Obstinacy. Could this be a useful object?

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

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

I’m interested in things which suggest the world rather than express the personality... The most conventional thing, the most ordinary - it seems to me that those things can be dealt with without having to judge them; they seem to me to exist as clear facts, not involving aesthetic hierarchy.

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.