"Although I made radical attempts to break away from my former habits in printmaking, I was still not completely liberated from my first and strongest influence. Despite the highly simplified and almost abstractly patternlike approach of my new experiments, I was still a slave to the simple frame. My prints still had a border even if I constantly asked why they should. It is an irony and a cause for the artist to be humble that he needs so much time and so much effort, as I needed, to liberate himself from the tiny frame. Such is the power of habit."