Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

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.

Civilized are not those who never make mistakes – civilized are those who learn from their mistakes instead of trying to justify them.

Without a vision, we are easy destructed by the storm's of life.

After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.

I cared for you more that you cared yourself. Something which I regret for you didn't deserve to be cared!

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

I love America. You always hurt the one you love.

I felt, you know, body and soul, as it were. But, of course, I mean, I - at that age, I didn't think in terms of being professional. I didn't know anything about it. That happened later.

You think about acting kind of as an iceberg where you've got that 5% that you see... but in order to have that 5%... you have to have another 95%.

It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.