I think a great deal of contemporary painting doesn't have that element(decaying from your original idea) in it at all.It is all cerebral invention.Inventions not conceived in the imagination at all...contemporary painting is false..it has no intimacy.

In every artist's development the germ of a later work is always found in the earlier.

To me form,color and design are merely a means to an end....I am interested primarily in the vast field of experience and sensation.

Invention...is the essence of personality.