If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.

I will say without reservations that from my point of view there can be no abstractions. Any shape or area that has not the pulsating concreteness of real flesh and bones, its vulnerability to pleasure or pain is nothing at all. Any picture that does not provide the environment in which the breath of life can be drawn does not interest me.

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

Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.

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

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.

I use colors that have already been experienced through the light of day and through the state of mind of the total man. In other words, my colors are not colors that are laboratory tools which are isolated from all accidentals or impurities so that they have a specified identity or purity.