I never wish for critics.
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
To me, self-description is a calamity.
One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.
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.