Everyone thinks an artist needs an artist's statement. Even the bartender at Woody's said I needed one, and I trust my bartender with things I wouldn't trust with my wife, if I had a wife. Which I don't. But I've always hated reading artist's statements. They usually fall somewhere between "I paint puppies because they're so cute" or "the primary crux of my oeuvre is deconstruction of the postmodern paradigm". Who needs it? Not I. I just paint what the little voices in my head tell me to. Like Lee Harvey Oswald, I'm just a patsy. I am what some people would call a neo-expressionist, though I'm not fond of anything that has a "neo-" attached to it. I declare that my art is sincere and genuine, as opposed to the great deal of art out there which seems to me to be soulless and fake. Any artist who paints what he really wants to paint, and expresses what he really intends to express is automatically beyond reproach. My art is not for the jaded or the unenthusiastic. Bernard Buffet said: "Painting, we do not talk about it, we do not analyze it, we feel it." There it is, then. My paintings do not require the viewer to read two pounds of text in order to be "truly understood" in the "proper perspective". What you see on these canvases is exactly what I intended, no more, no less. Don't criticize me for failing to achieve something I never set out to do in the first place.