The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

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

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.

The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

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.