Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

My subject enlarges itself, becomes methodized and define, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it, like a fine picture or a beautiful statute, at a glance.

I can envision the finished painting before I start. I read occasionally about an artist who says I sit before my canvas and I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't believe that.