Why Painting Is Worth the Risks for Richard Miller, Art Isn't Formula or Fashion - It Requires `Going beyond What You Know'. ART: INTERVIEW

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`FOR me, there is no formula for making art. I can't repeat myself. Every painting, every drawing is a risk. If I can predict the outcome, I have to change. I have to go beyond what I know."

Richard Miller, a painter just now coming into his own, is moving paintings around his small Upper West Side Manhattan studio. All the canvases are large, a few huge. Two or three are multi-panel works so immense that he has to move them into the next room to show them.

"Yes, risk is important," he continues, "and so is trusting one's feelings. Making art is not an easy business. Some days nothing goes right, and I'm convinced I'm the worst painter on Earth. But then …