Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irr….

One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union..

In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is a very specific means of expression, with a li….

I dislike a picture that is too suave or too skilfully done. But, contrariwise, I also dislike a picture that looks too inept or blundering..

For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much as anything I have ever done. They….

A main part of the struggle of art has been to make an art that is direct, simple, humane, unconnected with powers that be in their essence... To the….

I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world..

To pick up a cigarette wrapper or wine label or an old letter or the end of a carton is my way of dealing with those things that do not originate in ….

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception..

For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the wa….

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to f….

By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'co….