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.

A canvas is an arena in which to act.

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.

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 make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

Every good painter paints what he is.

I do not paint nature. I am nature.