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

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.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

My art became very public.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.