A canvas is an arena in which to act.

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

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.

When I am in a painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc, because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.