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

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.

Every good painter paints what he is.

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

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

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.