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.
From Jackson Pollock
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.
Every good painter paints what he is.
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.
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
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.
My painting does not come from the easel.
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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