I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings.
Growth is the goal, and that goal is never complete—art must be in constant change.
I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.