“I have a confidence in my understanding of formal esthetics and I don’t want to be aware of it or make it my problem. That is not the problem. Those things are solvable. I solve them beautifully. what makes a tight circle or a tight little square box more of an intellectual statement than something done emotionally, I don’t know. Art is an essence, a center. I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life. My life and art have not been separated. They have been together.”