The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.
To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.
When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.
The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
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.