Art Is Coming Face To Face With

It Doesn't Matter How The Paint Is Put On, As Long As Something Is Said.

I Don't Work From Drawings And Colour Sketches Into A Final Painting. Painting, I Think, Today - The More Immediate, The More Direct - The Greater The Possibilities Of Making A Direct - Of Making A Statement.

The Modern Artist Is Living In A Mechanical Age And We Have A Mechanical Means Of Representing Objects In Nature Such As The Camera And Photograph. The Modern Artist, It Seems To Me, Is Working And Expressing An Inner World - In Other Words - Expressing The Energy, The Motion, And Other Inner Forces.

He Drove His Kind Of Realism At Me So Hard I Bounced Right Into Nonobjective Painting.

I'm Very Representational Some Of The Time, And A Little All Of The Time. But When You're Painting Out Of Your Unconscious, Figures Are Bound To Emerge.