Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.
With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.
I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him.
In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.
For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.
Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.