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.

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

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 work with nature, although in completely new terms.

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

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