Art Is An Experience, Not An Object.

I Started With Straight, Basic, Symbolic Structures. My Problem Now Is The Opposite; As I Get Older, I Try To Make My Paintings More Contrapuntal, Richer.

Every Intelligent Painter Carries The Whole Culture Of Modern Painting In His Head. It Is His Real Subject, Of Which Everything He Paints In Both An Homage And A Critique, And Everything He Says Is A Gloss.

For A Painter As Abstract As Myself, The Collages Offer A Way Of Incorporating Bits Of The Everyday World Into Pictures.

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.

The Problems Of Inventing A New Language Are Staggering. But What Else Can One Do If One Needs To Express One's Feeling Precisely?