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

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.

I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.

People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.

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

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

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