Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.

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.

Some of the greatest journeys of humankind are those that, at the time being, only the one living it understands.

And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.'

You can go to hell -- I'm going to Texas.

Our number one opponents are not Liverpool, Arsenal or Manchester United. It is ourselves at Chelsea.

I can't play guitar, but I can sure make it howl.

Of travel I've had my share, man, I've been everywhere.

If we are to preserve civilization, we must first remain civilized.

For with God nothing will be impossible.

We should serve others without any expectations whatsoever. When others throw thorns at us, we should be able to throw flowers back at them.

There is purpose and worth to each and every life.