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

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

My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.

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.

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

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.

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