All Art Is Contemporary, If It's Alive,

The 'how' Has A Great Effect On What We See. To Say That 'what We See' Is More Important Than 'how We See It' Is To Think That 'how' Has Been Settled And Fixed. When You Realize This Is Not The Case, You Realize That 'how' Often Affects 'what' We See.

It Is Difficult To Say Why I Decided I Wanted To Be An Artist. Obviously, I Had Some Facility, More Than Other People, But Sometimes Facility Comes Because One Is More Interested In Looking At Things, Examining Them, More Interested In The Visual World Than Other People Are.

Before He Did All Those Lovely Line Drawings, Matisse Would Make Really Detailed Charcoal Drawings And Tear Them Up. He Wouldn't Leave Them About... I Understand What He Was Doing: Discovering What's There... To Make The Line Meaningful, To Find A Linear Solution.

You Always Need A Bit Of Low-tech.you Always Need A Pair Of Scissors, It Seems To Me. You Can Do Better Things.... The High-tech, Somehow, You Do Have To Combine It With Low-tech Things.

Cubism Was An Attack On The Perspective That Had Been Known And Used For 500 Years. It Was The First Big, Big Change. It Confused People: They Said, 'things Don't Look Like That!'