As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades you. It tells you all about the history of art.

I painted myself out of my painting.

You always have the memory of the bottom, and fear of the bottom. And when you start going to the bottom you panic.

There's something peculiar about artists. They have ups and downs... After a while everything you do is just wonderful... then you slide back. If you're a good artist you're going to go down. And then it's up to you.

It was told in the Bible. A man fell. He bit into knowledge and fell... How do you fall without falling completely? What do you bring as knowledge to a blank canvas? How do you begin?

Pulling yourself up again is the most important part of your life. Getting out of the bottom that you put everything into - yourself!

You have to give in to what the paint says... You have to do what it's telling you to do.