If only I had known what I know now, would it be as it is? Would I have changed the course of my journey? I think it is not an idea to bother about, There are things that I wish I had done and there are those which I wish I had not done. These events are part of the background of my present doing. Since I have taken upon myself the role of artist as explorer', I am more interested in what is going to happen than I am in what has happened. What has happened is a guide nevertheless. I follow the instincts and intuitions that first led me to art school when I was vaguely under the influence of Arthur Rimbaud and longing to escape my boyhood milieu. I was a diligent, serious, arrogant student with few natural skills. My arrogance would allow me to put this lack of natural talent in drawing, in perspective composition and tonal values to the back of my mind. My only talent (if that is the right word) was my extreme desire to be an artist.
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