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.

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.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.

Silence is so accurate.

As long as one finds faults with the world, he won’t be able to find anything about the Soul (Self). He who sees his own faults is the Soul (Self) himself!

When you blame others, you are affirming that you have no power, and your existence is only a reaction to the power of others.

Searching for what's beyond appearances opens our divine eyes to see the concealed facts in experience.

Fool! Nothing but black ink runs through my veins!

The idea of molding men means a lot to me.

There's a richness in older music that's been forgotten.

Attitudes determine our actions, for good or bad.

When your self and your life belong to your being, your self opens, your life opens, your being comes in, and it will have everything. It is the single greatest turning point in your life.

The universe has no mind and that's why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.