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.

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.

A canvas is an arena in which to act.

The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

On the floor I am more at ease.

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

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