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.

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.

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.

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

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

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.

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