I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience.

Focusing isn't just an optical activity; it is also a mental one..

In general, my paintings are multifocal. You can't call it unfocused space, but not being fixed to a single focus is very much of our time..

Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science..

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces..

I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind..

I work on two levels. I occupy my conscious mind with things to do, lines to draw, movements to organize, rhythms to invent. In fact, I keep myself o….

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge..

If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behaviour, so to speak. It is prom….

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces, an event rather than an appearance. These forces can only be tackled by treating c….

I work with nature, although in completely new terms..

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly..

I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares, rectang….

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active..

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to int….

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other th….

An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.

It was only after I had been out of the art school that I actually copied a small Seurat, and I copied it in order to follow his thought, because if ….

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, th….

The actual basis of colour is instability. Once you accept that in lieu of something which is stable, which is form, you are dealing with something w….