When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

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

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

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

If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means.

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

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