I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else

By the time you establish your priorities, there really isn't any fun or need to interest yourself in what you're doing. And this I find disastrous.

I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed.

I don't mess around with my subconscious

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.