I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's see if I can do it.

I am never free of the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.

The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.

Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you.

I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.