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Painting is a state of being.
On the floor I am more at ease.
Love is friendship set to music.
The painting has a life of its own
I don't paint nature. I am nature.
I do not paint nature. I am nature.
A canvas is an arena in which to act.
Every good painter paints what he is.
My painting does not come from the easel.
Art is coming face to face with yourself.
A man's life is his work; his work is his life.
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.
I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
How do you know when you're finished making love?
I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.
Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident
I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.
I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.
When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.
Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.
It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.
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.
You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.
My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.
It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.
When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.
As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.
My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements.
In response to the question, 'How do you know when you're finished?' Pollock replied, 'How do you know when you're finished making love?
The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result.
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.