My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my way to more serious work and would find my….

I keep plastering it until it comes around to what I want, in terms of all I know and think about painting now, as well as in terms of the initial ob….

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression.

I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me ….

Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting a….

Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion..

My freedom consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings..

As a work progresses, its power to elicit and dictate response mounts. There seems to be an optimum moment when this power is at its greatest which j….

I want painting to be difficult to do..

I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to stay in the painting as it develo….

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To call this expression abstract….

When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling... But it happens very rarely; usually it's agony... I go to great pains to….

In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholenes….

Do search, but in order to find other than what is searched for..

I came to mistrust my desire to explode the picture and supercharge it in some way… what is more important is a feeling of strength in reserve – tens….

I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are made or discovered as symbo….

I can never accomplish what I want - only what I would have wanted had I thought of it beforehand..

Don't be a Pollyanna!.

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract for he must create his own work from his visual impressions….

Mistakes can't be erased, but they move you from your present position..

Somehow don't be bored, but if you must, use it in action. Use its destructive potential..