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.

A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.

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.

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.

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

My painting does not come from the easel.

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