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.

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

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.

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

All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims -- the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves.

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?

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.

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

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

I've had a period of drawing on canvas in black -- with some of my early images coming thru -, think the non-objectivists will find them disturbing -- and the kids who think it simple to splash a 'Pollock' out.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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