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

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

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

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

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

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

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