“My paintings start with a complication on the canvas surface, done with as much spontaneity and as little memory as possible. This then exists as the subject. It is as strange as a new still life arrangement, as confusing as an unfamiliar situation. It demands a long period of acquaintance during which it is observed both innocently and shrewdly. Then it speaks, quietly with its own peculiar logic. Between painting and painter a dialogue develops which leads rapidly to the bare confrontation of two personalities… At some point the subject becomes the object, existing independently as a painting.”