Love is friendship set to music.
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
If people would just look at the paintings, I don’t think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It’s like looking at a bed of flowers, you don’t tear your hair out over what it means.
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you...
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future – without arriving there completely.
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
It doesn’t matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn’t have any beginning or any end. He didn’t mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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.
Art is coming face to face with yourself.