An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict

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

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.

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

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

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.