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

The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

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.

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.

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

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.

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