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" 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. "
Pictures
You
Beginning
" Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall. "
Fall
Bums
Well-To-Do
" Every good painter paints what he is. "
Good
Painter
Paints
" He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting. "
Painting
Hard
Kind
" I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. "
Away
Painter
Get
" I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting. "
Painting
Work
Final
" I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. "
Stretch
Before
Canvas
" I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. "
Painting
Own
Life
" 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. "
Painting
Your
Time
" 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. "
Difference
Paint
Long
" 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. "
Painting
Easy
Harmony
" My painting does not come from the easel. "
Come
Does
Art
" My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout. "
Interest
Depend
Center
" 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. "
Past
New
Need
" 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. "
Work
I Can
I Am
" Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. "
Art
He
Artist
" The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces. "
Energy
Artist
Words
" The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. "
Than
Space
Time
" The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. "
Come
Through
Try
" The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. "
Think
Wear
Art
" 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. "
Source
Go
Matter
" When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. "
Painting
Am
Aware
" 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. "
See
Changes
Doing
" 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. "
Building
Pen
Game
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