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.

When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

Love is friendship set to music.

I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.