All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression

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.

I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue.

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.

Don't 'discover' a subject of any kind.

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