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've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet feel a long sleep is somehow earned by those of us who live on the edge.

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.

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

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

People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.

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