A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer

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.

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

When I feel too much and the universe aches inside of me.

Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.

With experience comes improvement.

Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is "Don't grumble. Plug on!"

I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.

The best way to defend America in this world we live in is to stay on the offense.

Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness

It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.