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

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.

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

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

Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims - the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves.

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.