I remember looking at books when I was in high school, but I don't think I really stood in front of a genuine painting or sculpture until I was out of high school.
I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.
I don't really get excited about good things happening to me.
There's art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn't get under my skin like it used to.
I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do.
I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the last 40 or 50 years.