From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails
Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.
To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.
The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions. . the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.
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
Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.
The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's latter-day degeneracy could only conceive of the exceptional in terms of deficiency or affliction.
The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell. . .
I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I'm like a kid.