My painting does not come from the easel.

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.

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

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

I do not paint nature. I am nature.

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.

Art is coming face to face with yourself.