Genesis I: 'The earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And God said, let there be light, and there was light.' - Barnett Newman

Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

We are freeing ourselves of the impediments of memory, association, nostalgia, legend, myth, or what have you, that have been the devices of western European painting. Instead of making 'cathedrals' out of Christ, man, or 'life', we are making it out of ourselves, out of our own feelings..

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.