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

I want painting to be difficult to do.

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

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

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.

Somehow don't be bored, but if you must, use it in action. Use its destructive potential.

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To call this expression abstract seems to me often to confuse the issue. Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract . . . a realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts.