The Main Thing Is Not To Be

Abstract Art Is Uniquely Modern. It Is A Fundamentally Romantic Response To Modern Life - Rebellious, Individualistic, Unconventional, Sensitive, Irritable.

For Twenty Years I Read A Book A Day, From The Time I Was Seven Until I Was Twenty-seven.

Any Incentive To Paint Is As Good As Any Other. There Is No Poor Subject.

For Me, The Sketchbooks Are More Like A Secret And Wholly Spontaneous Jeu D'esprit And Some Of Them I Like As Much As Anything I Have Ever Done. They Are Invariably Without Premeditation. I Mean Not Only That I Have No Plan When I Make Them, I Also Have No Plan To Make Them.

In A Way, Painting Is Like Wine: It Is As Old, As Simple, As Primitive And As Varied. Like Wine, It Is A Very Specific Means Of Expression, With A Limited Vocabulary, But Vast In Its Expressive Potential.