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.

I do not paint nature. I am nature.

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

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.

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.

The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.

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