On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

Every good painter paints what he is.

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

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.

It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. Each age find its own technique.

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.