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

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

Every good painter paints what he is.

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

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.

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... 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.

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

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.

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

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

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

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

My painting does not come from the easel.

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

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

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

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.

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

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

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

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

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

Love is friendship set to music.

Art is coming face to face with yourself.

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

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

Bums are the well to do of this day. They didnt have as far to fall.

A canvas is an arena in which to act.

I don't want to wear my compositional tools on my sleeve.

Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.

First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.

I ask the American people to consider the legacy this administration has handed us in the defense budget as we spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars without the tools and ability to track these dollars.

We were given clear concrete tools. The course did a great job demystifying the art of fiction writing and fostering confidence. The instructor brought complex concepts down to earth. I will miss coming here every week.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously.

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.

We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us.

Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools.

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.

Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.

We must continue to work hard on the federal level, to make sure that our local law enforcement and communities have the tools and resources they need to fight this war against methamphetamine, and keep our kids safe.