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

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

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

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.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

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

Art is an experience, not an object.