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

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.

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

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

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things -- creating molding the earth -- whether it be the plains of the west -- or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction -- some with a brush -- some with a shovel -- some choose a pen.

I don't paint nature. I am nature.

Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.