It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.
I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.
Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.
I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.
