We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.

A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer

A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

We are concerned with similar states of consciousness and relationship to the world.. ..If previous abstractions paralleled the scientific and objective preoccupations of our times, ours are finding a pictoral equivalent for man's new knowledge and consciousness of his more complex inner self.

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.

The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.