Painting Is No Problem. The Problem Is

Modern Art To Me Is Nothing More Than The Expression Of Contemporary Aims Of The Age We’re Living In. All Cultures Have Had Means And Techniques Of Expressing Their Immediate Aims – The Chinese, The Renaissance, All Cultures. The Thing That Interests Me Is That Today Painters Do Not Have To Go To A Subject Matter Outside Of Themselves. Most Modern Painters Work From A Different Source, They Work From Within.

Most Modern Painters Work From A Different Source. They Work From Within.

Painting Is No Problem. The Problem Is What To Do When You're Not Painting.

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.

It Seems To Me That The Modern Painter Cannot Express This Age, The Airplane, The Atom Bomb, The Radio, In The Old Forms Of The Renaissance Or Of Any Other Past Culture. Each Age Find Its Own Technique.