Quotes on Abstract Expressionism

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

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 emerge.

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

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

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

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 comes out well.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.