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

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

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"History develops, art stands still."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"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."

Life

"Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall."

Economy

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

Time

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

Work

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

Art

"My painting does not come from the easel."

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"The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through."

Life

"I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own."

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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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"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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