I Do Not Paint Nature. I Am

I've Had A Period Of Drawing On Canvas In Black - With Some Of My Early Images Coming Thru -, Think The Non-objectivists Will Find Them Disturbing - And The Kids Who Think It Simple To Splash A 'pollock' Out.

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 Paint Nature. I Am Nature.

Modern Art To Me Is Nothing More Than The Expression Of Contemporary Aims Of The Age That We're Living In.

It Doesn't Matter How The Paint Is Put On, As Long As Something Is Said.