I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.

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.

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. I guess, in painting, it would amount to different kinds of space being represented in it.

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

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in.

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.