There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

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.

Only this time, now that she knew what it felt like to kiss him, she didn’t want to slap that look off his face, she wanted to kiss it off.

Life is like a precious pearl.

With the Holy Spirit, you have it made! For you, life is already successful.

Fear can give you urgent wings.

The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step.

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

I'm a great fan of taking my laptop out and about.

We were meant to be together.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.