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

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

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 picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent.

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

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

Silence is so accurate.