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.

I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work

The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely

How do you know when you're finished making love?

A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

I don't paint nature. I am nature.