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 hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet feel a long sleep is somehow earned by those of us who live on the edge.

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

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

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

I do not paint nature. I am nature.