"I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them."

"When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the im…"

"Painting is a physical act."

"It's not enough to be a good painter; you have to be a good boxer, too."

"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 finds its own techniq…"