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.

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed and soothed, experience frictions and ruptures, glide and drift. One moment, there will be nothing to look at and the next second the canvas seems to refill, to be crowded with visual events.

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind.

Focusing isn't just an optical activity; it is also a mental one.