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

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

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.

The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result.

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.