Sitting on the cold floor in the study. (I don't heat it. It is full of
old books and unopened boxes and I seldom go there) I read some words by
William Baziotes which I had copied from Possiblilies -- on a
single
sheet of paper in 1948:
"As for the subject-matter in my painting, when I
am observing something that may be the theme for a painting, it is very
often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that
really stirred me, rather than the thing before me."