If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.

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.

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.

Silence is so accurate.

My mind is my laboratory.

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive.

The purpose of it all is love.

I always feel like when I've listened to a great song I know it, 'cuz it's the only time I'll ever get goosebumps or something like that.

Where you are is a result of who you were, but where you go depends entirely on who you choose to be.

Nelson Mandela stands as an inspiration to us all

Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.

Body and spirit I surrendered whole To harsh instructors and received a soul... If mortal man could change me through and through From all I was What may the God not do?

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.