While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.

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.

The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

Every teardrop that falls from your chin, God will catch in the palms of His hands!

There's a balance between what you want to give the world and what it needs. If you're lucky, your work is in the middle.

Do the tasks that causes you the most fear, anxiety, or stress - and get over it.

I am right sorry for your heavinesse.

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.

There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.

No power from above can make one human love another. Love comes from within the heart. (Julian)

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.