It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

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

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

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

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.

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

There is more power in telling little than in telling all.