“Painting is self-discovery.”

If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.

My favorite symbols were those which I didn’t understand.

It seems tome they are more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.

I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant.

I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling…

All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces,

Feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.

You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.

I never use nature as a starting point.

Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature.

The immediate presence of terror and fear.