Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in. All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims – the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source, they work from within.

Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result.

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.