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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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