The main thing

The main thing is that you don’t have to try, although it takes a few decades of trying before you discover that.

M.John Harrison

Your job

As you grow older, it dawns on you that you are yourself – that your job is not to force yourself into a style but to do what you want.

David Park

Forgetting oneself

‘The whole business of painting is very much to do with forgetting oneself and being able to act instinctively'

Frank Auerbach