When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

I don't paint nature. I am nature.

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

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.

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... 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.

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

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