..if we are lucky,       we are going to have perhaps a
thousand years of        non-representational painting;
To my mind certain         so-called abstraction is not
abstraction at all;         it is the realism for our times;
We were outcasts,          rough expressionist painters
     not acceptable to most dealers          & collectors;
     [A reference to the TEN]      The role of the artist,
   has always been that of the mage-maker;  
& different times require different images;          My
favorite symbols those I do not understand