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

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.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.

The main thing is not to be dead.

To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.