So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.

I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.