She made a good house clean, she was a good cook, she sewed, and I felt sorry for her making my clothes when she hated me so much. I really did feel sorry for her. I doubted it for 20 years. I didn t like it for 20 years. When I knew what I wanted, I wanted absolutely abstract painting, like music.
Music is abstract.
It s about our feeling, you know, and I had to paint from inspiration, and the inspirations just went ahead just a little bit at a time, a little bit, so slow. Twenty years of inspiration but not what I wanted. Well, I don t know. But I painted it anyway, six feet by six feet of grid, and sure enough it was innocence. You just thought of innocence when you looked at it.