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.

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

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.

I want painting to be difficult to do.

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

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.