If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.

My career doesn't depend on painting Bill Clinton.

I'm drawing in my head pretty much.

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.

So really what I am trying to do is create and understand form. But then too, color enters into it because a lot of things are color changes without a value change, which wouldn't show up if you were just using a non-color medium.

There are times when I love to play all kinds of complicated games in painting. But this is one case when I need to be fairly straightforward. I'll just try to paint the man, his intelligence, his amiability and his stature, maybe paint him fairly close to humor and try to get it just right.