Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

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.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in. All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims – the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source, they work from within.

On the floor I am more at ease.

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