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.

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

I want painting to be difficult to do.

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

I came to mistrust my desire to explode the picture and supercharge it in some way… what is more important is a feeling of strength in reserve – tension beneath calm.

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