My painting does not come from the easel.

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

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

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.

When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

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