Art is the soul of a people.
The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue
Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.
The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.
The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?
Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.