The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another.

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

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

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.

There was very little art in my childhood.

There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.