I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.
I begin painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under my brush. The form becomes a sign for a woman or a bird as I work... The first stage is free, unconscious... the second stage is carefully calculated.
I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call "future."