"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."

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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."

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

Interest

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

Painting

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

Painting

"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."

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"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."

Work

"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'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."

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"I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting."

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

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"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."

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