▶ "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."; "The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art."; "The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through."; "The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces."; "The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating."; …"Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is."; "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."; "My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout."; "My painting does not come from the easel."; "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."; "I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own."; "I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting."; "He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting."; "Every good painter paints what he is."
