I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares, rectangles, triangles and the sensations they give rise to It is untrue that my work depends on any literary impulse or has any illustrative intention. The marks on the canvas are sole and essential agents in a series of relationships which form the structure of the painting.

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces, an event rather than an appearance. These forces can only be tackled by treating color and form as ultimate identities, freeing them from all descriptive or functional roles.

Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.