Well, painting today certainly seems very vibrant, very alive, very exiting. Five or six of my contemporaries around New York are doing very vital work, and the direction that painting seems to be taken here - is - away from the easel - into some sort, some kind of wall, wall painting.
"Interview by William Wright". as quoted in "Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics", ed. Clifford Ross, 1990, p.144, Summer 1950.