A man's life is his work; his work is his life..

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating..

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within..

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces..

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not..

Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about h….

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emer….

The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. T….

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement..

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in. All cultures have had means and techniques of e….

With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use - I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny t….

There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end..

All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims - the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests ….

My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements..

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall..

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting ….

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is..

A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence..

I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them..

My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature..

Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement..