One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much as anything I have ever done. They are invariably without premeditation. I mean not only that I have no plan when I make them, I also have no plan to make them.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.