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

I don't paint nature. I am nature.

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

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

It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. Each age find its own technique.

My painting does not come from the easel.

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