To End Up With A Canvas That

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.

Painting Is A Medium In Which The Mind Can Actualize Itself; It Is A Medium Of Thought. Thus Painting, Like Music, Tends To Become Its Own Content.

The 'pure' Red Of Which Certain Abstractionists Speak Does Not Exist. Any Red Is Rooted In Blood, Glass, Wine, Hunters' Caps And A Thousand Other Concrete Phenomena. Otherwise We Would Have No Feeling Toward Red And Its Relations.

It Is Sometimes Forgotten How Much Wit There Is In Certain Works Of Abstract Art. There Is A Certain Point In Undergoing Anguish When One Encounters The Comic.

I Almost Never Start With An Image. I Start With A Painting Idea, An Impulse, Usually Derived From My Own World.