Painting Is A State Of Being.

Modern Art To Me Is Nothing More Than The Expression Of Contemporary Aims Of The Age That We're Living In.

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.

I've Been Thinking Of Death A Lot, And I Am Amazed By Its Inevitability, Frightened, As We All Are, Of The Totally Unknown, And Yet Feel A Long Sleep Is Somehow Earned By Those Of Us Who Live On The Edge.

I Don't Paint Nature. I Am Nature.

With Experience It Seems To Be Possible To Control The Flow Of Paint, To A Great Extent, And I Don't Use - I Don't Use The Accident - 'cause I Deny The Accident... It's Quite Different From Working, Say, From A Still Life Where You Set Up Objects And Work Directly From Them. I Do Have A General Notion Of What I'm About And What The Results Will Be. I Approach Painting In The Same Sense As One Approaches Drawing, That Is, It's Direct.