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

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.. ...(they) express something real and existing in ourselves.

Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.

I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.