Whatever your past may have been, your future is still spotless.
The materials I use are absolutely essential to the work I make.
I often use colour to attack form, to break it down a little or begin to dissolve it. But I am not at all interested in 'pure' colour or in colour as a transcendental presence. . . So if I use colours to begin to dissolve forms, I also use forms to prevent colours becoming entirely detached from their everyday existence.
Colour is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it To work with colour is to become acutely aware of the insufficiency of language and theory – which is both disturbing and pleasurable.
Chromophobia is perhaps only chromophilia without the colour.
Certain materials suggest ideas and ways of working.
If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.
Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted.
Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.
I have to make music. If I don't do it, I go crazy.