Painting That Does Not Radiate Feeling Is

If You Give A Child Something Very Complex To Paint, Such As A Bouquet Of Flowers Or A Natural Landscape, If He Is Very Good, Eventually He Will Get Back - Like Cezanne - To The Essential Forms Of What He Sees.

It Is The Medium, Or The Specific Configuration Of The Medium, That We Call A Work Of Art That Brings Feeling Into Being.

One's Art Is Just One's Effort To Wed Oneself To The Universe, To Unify Oneself Through Union.

For A Painter As Abstract As Myself, The Collages Offer A Way Of Incorporating Bits Of The Everyday World Into Pictures.

I Started With Straight, Basic, Symbolic Structures. My Problem Now Is The Opposite; As I Get Older, I Try To Make My Paintings More Contrapuntal, Richer.