My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements.

A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.

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

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.

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.