Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.
Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.
We must go to such towns as Bristol, York, and Norwich.
I had a call to the University of Miami where I'd run a revival in 1950.
I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.
I think words come between the spectator and the picture.
What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.
When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.
Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?
I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.
Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.
I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.
The vocabulary I use has to reflect the people I'm trying to communicate with.
I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
