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I've been running my whole life. Running into bars, running around the world. But when you have a child, you can't run. That was a revelation.
The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.
I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
Being an artist, it's all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
Being an artist doesn't start because you're 21, and it doesn't end because you're 51. You are who you are until the day you die.
An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.
