If you're a painter, you are not alone. There's no way to be alone. You think and you care and you're with all the people who care. You think you car… - Franz Kline

I think that if you use long lines, they become – what could they be? The only thing they could be is either highways or architecture or bridges.

The final test of painting, theirs, mine, any other, is; does the painter’s emotion comes across?.. ..Procedure is the keyword.. ..The difference is that we don't begin with a definite sense of procedure. It's free association from the start to the finished state. The old idea was to make use of your talent. This, we feel, is often to take the line of least resistance.. ..painters like Rothko, Pollock, Still, perhaps in reaction to the tendency to analyze which has dominated painting from Seurat to Albers, associate with very little analysis. A new form of expressionism inevitably followed. With De Kooning the procedure is continual change, and the immediacy of the change. With Jackson, it's the confidence you feel from the concentration of his energy in a given picture.. (1958)

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.