Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.

The paintings to me are always canvas, sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood also.

I have worked to free shape from its ground, and then to work the shape so that it has a definite relationship to the space around it; so that it has a clarity and a measure within itself of its parts (angles, curves, edges and mass); and so that, with color and tonality, the shape finds its own space and always demands its freedom and separateness.

The negative is just as important as the positive.

I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.

In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.