My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes

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.

I can see the headline now: Archangel Busts Were Whisperer.

I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.

I always second-guess what I am doing.

...one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away.

It is lunacy to be bringing refugees into this country who may be terrorists trying to murder Americans.

[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.

The first 18 holes are extremely difficult.

In charity, every little bit works. You can't change the world. You can't do everything. But you sure try to bring awareness and do as much as you can.

He's a real gentleman. I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it.