"Taste begins when appetite is satisfied."

"Whitear painting controversy, The Guardian 16 March 2004"

"We know today that form is always the product of an inquisitorial process of matter – the specific reaction…"

"All I have produced before the age of seventy is not worth taking into account. At seventy-three I have lea…"

"I started to introduce letters into my pictures . These were forms which could not be deformed, because, be…"

"Every phenomenon can be experienced in two ways. These two ways are not arbitrary, but are bound up with th…"

"In my search for these values I like to work both realistically and abstractly. In my drawing and painting …"