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.

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.

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.

Every good painter paints what he is.

Art is coming face to face with yourself.

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.

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