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

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.

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

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two times-but never three.

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.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.