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 don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

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.

I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.

I don't paint nature. I am nature.