If somehow I can, before I leave this earth, combine my absolutely mad freedom and excitement with truth, then I will have done something.

I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.

I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

I've tried never to be easily satisfied, and I've been painting like fury now for forty years.... I have a feeling. You paint about as far as your emotions go, and that's about it.

If somehow I can, before I leave this earth, combine my absolutely mad freedom and excitement with truth, then I will have done something.

I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. I see no reason for painting but that. If I have anything to offer, it is my emotional contact with the place where I live and the people I do.