If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.
I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.
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.
My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.
Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.
I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.