All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it.
Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.
Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is the result of a sometimes successful effort to free myself from any idea that what I produce must be art.
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.
A weak background is a deadly thing.