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

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

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

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.

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