I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.

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

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

We get used to a certain kind of colour of form or format, and it's acceptable. And to puncture that is sticking your neck out a bit. And then pretty soon, that's very acceptable.

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.

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.

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