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

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

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

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

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

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.

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