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.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

I do not paint nature. I am nature.

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

A canvas is an arena in which to act.

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.

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.