If you want a certain level of form, it takes most of the painting figuring out how to do it, so it takes you the whole journey just to learn what to do.
I always start three or four of the same sort of subject and then my wrist gets looser because I kind of know the journey somewhat, so you take much more risk.
-Artist Jenny Saville, Gagosian
[Lydia Davis, too, works on more than one project at a time].