I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.
You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.
When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.
I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do.
We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.