“I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it - drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.” - Willem de Kooning

The wise and creative mindset can be understood as a balance of the emotional, reasonable, and spiritual parts within us. Like splashes of paint dribbling on the canvas, the gestures and utterances become an exchange in the flow of inner and outer experiences. Interruption of this life flow is like the clotting of blood to the heart, and to the brain, causing a heart attack or a stroke.

The abstract expressionist is called to action, in response to the importance of the call, to act on what is true, with a turning towards, in an attempt to make contact.