Every Picture One Paints Involves Not Painting

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.

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

Sometimes Images May Emerge From Some Chord In My Subconscious, The Way A Dream Might. Even In Those Paintings Where An Image Unconsciously Develops, A Certain Kind Of Experience Is Usually Necessary In Order To Perceive It.

Every Picture One Paints Involves Not Painting Others.