You know, comments about style always seem strange to me - 'why do you work in this style, or in that style' - as if you had a choice in the matter... What you're doing is trying to stay alive and continue and not die.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

If the artist starts evaluating himself, it’s an enormous block, isn’t it?

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

More than a process, painting is being possessed.

But you begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and self-judging, it has no reason to exist at all - or is not even possible. The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.