If a painting of mine suits me, it is right. If it does not please me, I care not if all the great masters should approve it or the dealers buy it. They would be wrong.

I communicate my innermost perceptions through art.

I seek a form of language which will express my ideas for our time.

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.

When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting - I just stop working on it for a while.

Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush.

I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time. I do that because I want to - because I like to change my mind so often. The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting.

If Picasso drips, I drip... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso.