He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

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 in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

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

I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident

The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.