The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees

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.

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.

Silence is so accurate.

It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.

The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes.

The more women looke in their glasse, the lesse they looke to their house. [The more women look in their glass, the less they look to their house.]

I guess the tone of jokes is often, at best, irreverent, but it always comes from a place of deep love.

Management creates an empowered state of mind in the organization by treating employees as part-owners of the business and expecting them to act like owners.

I can't tell people how much fun it is to be a super-villain. Being a villain is cool, but being a supervillain is a different level of exciting.

The tongue never slips – remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue.

It's not the outer appearance that matters, it's what's inside.