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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, rectangles, triangles and the sensations they give rise to It is untrue that my work depends on any literary impulse or has any illustrative intention. The marks on the canvas are sole and essential agents in a series of relationships which form the structure of the painting.

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

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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…

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

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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…

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

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

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

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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…

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I work with nature, although in completely new terms.

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