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Every good painter paints what he is.

I don't paint nature. I am nature.

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 modern artist ... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

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.

every good artist paints what he is

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.

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.

I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.

My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.

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 modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.

Painting is a state of being.

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

On the floor I am more at ease,

There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.

The secret of success is ... to be fully awake to everything about you.

Love is friendship set to music.

A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.

My painting does not come from the easel.

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.

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.

I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work

I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

Art is coming face to face with yourself.

The painting has a life of its own

A canvas is an arena in which to act.

People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

A man's life is his work; his work is his life.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.