I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.
Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
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 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.