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

When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling... But it happens very rarely; usually it's agony... I go to great pains to mask the agony. But the struggle is there. It's the invisible enemy.

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.

Use and respond to the initial fresh qualities but consider them absolutely expendable.

Do search, but in order to find other than what is searched for.

I want painting to be difficult to do.