I don't paint nature. I am nature.

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

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

Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

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.