Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

Love is friendship set to music.

The painting has a life of its own

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

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 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.