Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.

If you are moved only by the color relationships, then you miss the point.

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

The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees

If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.

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.

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.