I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.