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….

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout..

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..

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn….

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….

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

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

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….

If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't….

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting..

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own..

You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result..

It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any….

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