Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints in both an homage and a critique, and everything he says is a gloss.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.

In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.

Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need. The need is for felt experience - intense, immediate, direct, subtle, unified, warm, vivid, rhythmic.