A Man's Life Is His Work; His

I Have No Fear Of Making Changes, Destroying The Image, Etc., Because The Painting Has A Life Of Its Own.

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.

I Don't Work From Drawings And Colour Sketches Into A Final Painting. Painting, I Think, Today - The More Immediate, The More Direct - The Greater The Possibilities Of Making A Direct - Of Making A Statement.

Well, Method Is, It Seems To Me, A Natural Growth Out Of A Need, And From A Need The Modern Artist Has Found New Ways Of Expressing The World About Him. I Happen To Find Ways That Are Different From The Usual Techniques, Which Seems A Little Strange At The Moment, But I Don't Think There's Anything Very Different About It. I Paint On The Floor And This Isn't Unusual - The Orientals Did That.

I Don't Use The Accident - 'cause I Deny The Accident