Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

The painting has a life of its own

A canvas is an arena in which to act.

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

When I am in a painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc, because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. 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.

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