Personal experimentation is revealing, and once you get into it, immensely engaging.

The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.

I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think of no more real life than the adventurous one of living and liking and exclaiming the things of one's own time.

Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is the result of a sometimes successful effort to free myself from any idea that what I produce must be art.

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?

In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. I don't believe any real artist cares whether what he does is 'art' or not. Who, after all, knows what art is?

Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that stroke.