The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed and soothed, experience frictions and ….

I learned from Seurat this important thing about colour and light, that 'a light' can be built from colour. I learned a great deal about interaction,….

The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a paradox of chaos and order in one..

An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what ….

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values..

It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising..

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that space, paradoxically, the painti….