I don't paint nature. I am nature.

The painting has a life of its own

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.

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

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

I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet feel a long sleep is somehow earned by those of us who live on the edge.