Fahrenheit 451 among many other titles For us to come to terms with change and the perennial conundrums, we need more than verbal or numerical answers. Perhaps the artist's eye, which sees without naming, can reveal patterns that illuminate a new understanding of the boundary between order and chaos. My own personal ecstasies and agonies have contributed to a philosophy that is carried through my paintings like equations in a scientific model. It is my privilege to trust that my search for the real may shed some light for others. We're seeing a divide between the realm of artmaking, where artists still feel very much that they have a vocation and that what they make is significant and belongs to their own particular intelligence and sensibility, and a discipline of art history that is less and less conceptually able to deal with this kind of practice.
Creativity is like a water table under the earth.
No matter what you do, the first step to tapping creativity is showing up. There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions.