What could be more interesting, or in the end, more ecstatic, than in those rare moments when you see another person look at something you've made, and realize that they got it exactly, that your heart jumped to their heart with nothing in between.

One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is the real subject, of which everything he paints is both an homage and a critique, and everything he says is a gloss.

Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.

In the brush doing what it's doing, it will stumble on what one couldn't do by oneself.

In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is a very specific means of expression, with a limited vocabulary, but vast in its expressive potential.

Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come into existence, save as the consequence to a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

It is true that every artist has his own religion.