And the My home is in Springs, East Hampton, Long Island.

I was born in Cody, Wyoming spent two years at the Art Students League was Tom Benton.

He was a strong personality to react against.

This was in 1929.

I don't work.

I don't work from drawings or color sketches. My painting is direct. I usually paint on the floor. I enjoy working on the floor. I enjoy working on a large canvas. I feel more at home, more at ease in a big area.

Having the canvas on the floor, I feel nearer nearer more a part of the painting. This way I can walk

around it, work from all four sides and be in the painting, similar to the Indian sand painters of the West.

Sometimes I use a brush but often prefer using a stick.

Sometimes I pour the paint straight out of the can.

I like to use a dripping fluid paint.

I also use sand, broken glass, drink.

A method of painting is the natural growth out of a need.

I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.

The technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of the paint. There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.

Sometimes I lose a painting.

But I have no fear of changes of destroying the image because a painting has a life of its own I try to let it live

Okay, that was painful he even struggled with putting Cody and Wyoming together, and that was the best take they got.

That audio was from a short film created by a guy named Hans Neymuth in 1951,

and we'll get into exactly who that was and catch up to when it was made

towards the end of this episode. I'd call it a cross between a promotional piece and a documentary

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