Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.

Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seemstometheyare more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.

I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.