It is surprising to me to see
how many people separate the objective from the abstract.
Objective painting is not good painting
unless it is good in the abstract sense.
A hill or a tree cannot make a good painting
just because it is a hill or a tree.
It is lines and colors put together so that they say something.
For me that is the very basis of painting.
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing
in myself that I can only clarify in paint.