Objects Damage Pictures.

Colour Is A Power Which Directly Influences The Soul.

Of All The Arts, Abstract Painting Is The Most Difficult. It Demands That You Know How To Draw Well, That You Have A Heightened Sensitivity For Composition And For Colors, And That You Be A True Poet. This Last Is Essential.

Barriers Are Continually Being Made Out Of... New Values Which Have Overturned The Barriers Of The Past. Thus One Sees That It Is Not Basically The New Value That Is Of Prime Importance, But Rather The Spirit That Is Revealed In This Value, As Well As The Freedom Necessary For This Revelation.

I Let Myself Go. I Thought Little Of The Houses And Trees, But Applied Colour Stripes And Spots To The Canva... Within Me Sounded The Memory Of Early Evening In Moscow, Before My Eyes Was The Strong, Colour-saturated Scale Of The Munich Light And Atmosphere, Which Thundered Deeply In The Shadows.

I Applied Streaks And Blobs Of Colors Onto The Canvas With A Palette Knife, And I Made Them Sing With All The Intensity I Could.