Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

Silence is so accurate.

Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.

While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.

I am here to make you think. . . . I am not here to make pretty pictures!

Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.

I use colors that have already been experienced through the light of day and through the state of mind of the total man. In other words, my colors are not colors that are laboratory tools which are isolated from all accidentals or impurities so that they have a specified identity or purity.