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.

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

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

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

My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.

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.