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• Focusing isn't just an optical activity; it is also a mental one.
• For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces, an event rather than an appearance. These forces can only…
• There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain…
• Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
• I work with nature, although in completely new terms.
• In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.
• For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.
• I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started…
• The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed…
• As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
• Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the…
• I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience

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