I am not an action painter. Each painting is an act. The result of action and the fulfillment of action.. .No painting stops with itself, is complete… - Clyfford Still

[These are] not paintings in the usual sense, they are life and death merging in fearful union.

I do not have a comic or tragic period in any real sense. I have always painted dark pictures; always some light pictures. I will probably go on doing so.. .Orchestral. My work in its entirety is like a symphony in which each painting has its part.

..the light suggests no particular time of day or night [in the paintings of Paul Cézanne ]; it is not appropriated from morning or afternoon, sunlight or shadow.