We are concerned with similar states of consciousness and relationship to the world.. ..If previous abstractions paralleled the scientific and objective preoccupations of our times, ours are finding a pictoral equivalent for man's new knowledge and consciousness of his more complex inner self.

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

While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

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

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

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.