I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.
If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.
In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.
Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.
My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.
I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.