“WE DON’T DO THIS BUSINESS. IT DOES US.”

Dear Friends. I am back in the U.S. of A, looking the wrong way crossing the street and suffering withdrawal symptoms for English breakfasts while eating my organic granola. In London I hung out with some of England’s best known artists, many of whom are abstract painters. When John Hoyland said: “I try to make the pictures paint themselves. You can’t force a painting: you have to coax it,” it made me think of something Joel Grey once told me: “We don’t do this business it does us.” Could it be that the creative process is the same in all the arts?