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

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

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

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

Silence is so accurate.

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.

I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.