"They are not drawings as preparation for another painting and they succeed for me when they appeared to have a pictorial perfect pitch’. They are complete when they are in a compositional balance with the sheet of paper. In that respect they are successful when they are entirely placed exactly within the square or rectangle of the sheet of paper. Of course they have other qualities: the method of drawing. The line should also have that quality of exactness and an apparent casual roughness. Something between a determined mark and a scribble. I like them to be very black and white and to have a sense of being ‘lit’, to have a certain sparkle, like the sea or early black and white films…”

Unpublished mss. No.21 undated Crozier Archive