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.

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

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.

My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.

I don't paint nature. I am nature.

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.