I Do Not Paint Nature. I Am

With Experience It Seems To Be Possible To Control The Flow Of Paint, To A Great Extent, And I Don't Use - I Don't Use The Accident - 'cause I Deny The Accident... It's Quite Different From Working, Say, From A Still Life Where You Set Up Objects And Work Directly From Them. I Do Have A General Notion Of What I'm About And What The Results Will Be. I Approach Painting In The Same Sense As One Approaches Drawing, That Is, It's Direct.

Something In Me Knows Where I’m Going, And - Well, Painting Is A State Of Being. ... Painting Is Self-discovery. Every Good Artist Paints What He Is.

Technique Is Just A Means Of Arriving At A Statement.

People Have Always Frightened And Bored Me Consequently I Have Been Within My Own Shell.

I Continue To Get Further Away From The Usual Painter's Tools Such As Easel, Palette, Brushes, Etc. I Prefer Sticks, Trowels, Knives And Dripping Fluid Paint Or A Heavy Impasto With Sand, Broken Glass Or Other Foreign Matter Added.