What I Say Is That

Beauty And Happiness And Life Are All The Same And They Are Pervasive, Unattached And Abstract And They Are Our Only Concern. They Are Immeasurable, Completely Lacking In Substance. They Are Perfect And Sublime. This Is The Subject Matter Of Art.

I Would Like My Work To Be Recognized As Being In The Classical Tradition (coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), As Representing The Ideal In The Mind. Classical Art Cannot Possibly Be Eclectic. One Must See The Ideal In One's Own Mind. It Is Like A Memory - An Awareness -of Perfection.

When You Look In Your Mind You Find It Covered With A Lot Of Rubbishy Thoughts. You Have To Penetrate These And Hear What Your Mind Is Telling You To Do. Such Work Is Original Work.

When I First Made A Grid I Happened To Be Thinking Of The Innocence Of Trees And Then This Grid Came Into My Mind And I Thought It Represented Innocence, And I Still Do, And So I Painted It And Then I Was Satisfied. I Thought, This Is My Vision.

What I Say Is That We're Capable Of A Transcendent Response, And I Think It Makes Us Happy. And I Do Think Beauty Produces A Transcendent Response.