A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.
There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.
As far as I was concerned, with the early paintings, I liked them, I thought they were pretty good, but I didn't think it was the end of the world. I also thought of it as a kind of structure, a base to build on. So this proves I can do this and that, and they don't collapse, so then what can I do from here? How can I build on it?
