“I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.”

If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.

My favorite symbols were those which I didn’t understand.

It seems tome they are more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.

Painting is self-discovery.

In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant.

I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling…

All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces,

Feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.

You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.

I never use nature as a starting point.

Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature.

The immediate presence of terror and fear.

Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.

Self-actualized people…live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

The abstract kills, the concrete saves.