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

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.

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

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

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

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

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.