A Meeting of Minds - Louis Maqhubela and Douglas Portway

21 ‘When I begin a painting I don’t always know how it’s going to finish … As the ideas come along, it’s best not to argue with them even if there are elements that will need to be eliminated at the end … Too much thought can interrupt the process … if you begin with an idea and force it into the painting, the effect will seem stiff.’ The artist, quoted in Picton, John. In Clare Cooper and Benjamin Rhodes (eds) Louis Maqhubela: Fifteen Years . London: Art First, 2005, p. 2