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

My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements.

The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely

I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident

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.

I do not paint nature. I am nature.

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.