1. “It’s all a big game of construction – some with a brush – some with a shovel – some choose a pen.”
2. “My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.”
3. “I’m very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you’re painting out of your unconsciousness, figures are bound to emerge”
4. “Every good painter paints what he is.”
5. “When I am in my painting, I’m not aware of what I’m doing.”
6. “The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.”
7. “I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.”
8. “I don’t work from drawings. I don’t make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.”
9. “Art is coming face to face with yourself.”
10. “The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.”
11. “A man’s life is his work; his work is his life.”
12. “My painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through .”
13. “I do not paint nature. I am nature”
14. “I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of is own.”
15. “Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”
16. “Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.”
17. “There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.”
18. “The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.”
19. “My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.”
20. “Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we’re living in.”
21. “Painting is a state of being.”
22. “A canvas is an arena in which to act.”
23. “Love is friendship set to music.”
24. “Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you’re not painting.”
25. “My painting dose not come from the easel.”
26. “The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.”
27. “It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.”
28. “Most modern painters work from a different source. they work from within.”
29. “On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting”
30. “I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.”
