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

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

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

Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.

I do not believe that there was ever a question of being abstract or representational. It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing, and stretching one's arms again transcendental experiences became possible.

The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the possibilities of fantasy, but because it expresses to us something real and existing in ourselves, as it was to those who first stumbled upon the symbols to give them life.

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