"I work from the inside out, like a volcano."

"I'm not interested in what people think. I'm interested in what I think."

"It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. Each age finds its own techniq…"

"I don't have to be perfect. I just have to be myself."

"I have always been a painter. I was a painter before I could talk."