Color represents a logic that is just as unrelenting as the logic of form. One must never let go before having managed to set down one's first impressions. Through its simple means, pure abstract art can attain the objectivity of ornament, the purity of geometric construction, the spontaneity of the child. But to be art, the subjective must be manifested through the objective, the apparently mathematical must be free, spontaneity must be consciously expressed. As soon as I started using the figure my whole idea of my painting changed.
Nothing is less real than realism.
Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things. I don't think about this series in terms of history. I think in terms of contemporary life. It was like a still life with bread, a still life with flowers.