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

You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the American painters. Behind those colours there hides the final cataclysm.

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

Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.

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

With us the disguise must be complete. The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite associations with which our society increasingly enshrouds every aspect of our environment.

The abstract artist has given material existence to many unseen worlds and tempi.