Love is friendship set to music.

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.

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.

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

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

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

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.