By which I mean, I suppose, that even if part of his project was to ‘demystify’ a method of painting, for the casual viewer, one did not feel as though he was doubtful of mystery itself, nor that his decency or character (which was conveyed almost sensately through the TV screen, in his conversation, gestures, and asides) precluded in him the sort of obsessions and inscrutableness that, had his talent been of a deeper or more intensive cast, and his imagination more seditious, might have developed into a more complex and variegated expression.