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

Love is friendship set to music.

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.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

When I am in a painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc, because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. 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.

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

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