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

I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

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

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

There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red.

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