It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.

I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly. Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it. The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind. The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond

Fulfill your potential. That's the way to happiness.

The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.