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

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.

There was very little art in my childhood.

I never wish for critics.

In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself and partly due to my feelings about painting at the time. I sort of stuck to my guns for a while but eventually it seemed like a losing battle. Finally one must simply drop the reserve.