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I Have No Fear Of Making Changes, Destroying The Image, Etc., Because The Painting Has A Life Of Its Own.

It Doesn't Make Much Difference How The Paint Is Put On As Long As Something Has Been Said. Technique Is Just A Means Of Arriving At A Statement.

The Modern Artist Is Living In A Mechanical Age And We Have A Mechanical Means Of Representing Objects In Nature Such As The Camera And Photograph. The Modern Artist, It Seems To Me, Is Working And Expressing An Inner World - In Other Words - Expressing The Energy , The Motion And The Other Inner Forces ... The Modern Artist Is Working With Space And Time , And Expressing His Feelings Rather Than Illustrating.

With Experience It Seems To Be Possible To Control The Flow Of Paint, To A Great Extent, And I Don't Use - I Don't Use The Accident - 'cause I Deny The Accident... It's Quite Different From Working, Say, From A Still Life Where You Set Up Objects And Work Directly From Them. I Do Have A General Notion Of What I'm About And What The Results Will Be. I Approach Painting In The Same Sense As One Approaches Drawing, That Is, It's Direct.

Painting Is No Problem. The Problem Is What To Do When You're Not Painting.