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

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

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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."

Beginning

"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."

Art

"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."

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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."

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

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

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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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