All my work begins with drawings. I don’t labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line. I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.

I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.

The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

The negative is just as important as the positive.

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.

I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.

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.