Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow.

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red.

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.

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

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

There is more power in telling little than in telling all.

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

The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the essential experience of the picture.

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.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.

At the core of your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.

Liberty is dangerous.

Satan can wreak havoc but he cannot claim the victory.

Big girls need big diamonds.

What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity.

Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.