In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness.

My freedom consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings.

I want painting to be difficult to do.

In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness.

Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract for he must create his own work from his visual impressions. A realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts.

I can never accomplish what I want - only what I would have wanted had I thought of it beforehand.