Every good painter paints what he is.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

I continue to get further away from the usual painter’s tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

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

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... 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.