I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work

The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result.

The painting has a life of its own

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

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

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

How do you know when you're finished making love?