" .... Many a time, I do not know myself what makes that particular blue the way it is. Here, it is gesture, instinct, or pure chance that counts.I never make preparatory sketches. For me, a painting is created right on the canvas by way of destroying earlier layers of paint. A reason behind painting may be nature, a given situation, an event, a piece of music, or the work of a painter. The act of painting is a kind of war ...."