Humor prevents a hardening of the attitudes.
There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red.
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.
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.
In the gospel of Jesus Christ you have help from both sides of the veil, and you must never forget that. When disappointment and discouragement strike--and they will--you remember and never forget that if our eyes could be opened we would see horses and chariots of fire as far as the eye can see riding at reckless speed to come to our protection. They will always be there, these armies of heaven, in defense of Abraham's seed.
Everyone thrives most in his or her own unique environment.
Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him.
Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.