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

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.

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind

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.

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