If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape, if he is very good, eventually he will get ….

Wherever art appears, life disappears..

In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was….

I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning..

The main thing is not to be dead..

In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception ... to try, with sensitivity to the medium to emphasiz….

Each brushstroke is a decision..

Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints in both an ….

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it..

To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with..

I feel most real to myself in the studio..

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator..

What could be more interesting, or in the end, more ecstatic, than in those rare moments when you see another person look at something you've made, a….

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail..

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content..

Art is an experience, not an object..

Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty..

One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare..

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it..

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask..

If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two times-but never three..