I Do Not Believe That There Was

There Is Only One Thing I Fear In Life, My Friend: One Day, The Black Will Swallow The Red.

I Am Here To Make You Think. . . . I Am Not Here To Make Pretty Pictures!

The Reason For My Painting Large Canvases Is That I Want To Be Intimate And Human. To Paint A Small Picture Is To Place Yourself Outside Your Experience, To Look Upon An Experience As A Stereopticon View Or With A Reducing Glass. However You Paint The Larger Picture, You Are In It. It Isn't Something You Command.

I'm Interested Only In Expressing Basic Human Emotions. And The Fact That A Lot Of People Break Down And Cry When Confronted With My Pictures Shows That I Can Communicate These Basic Human Emotions.

A Picture Lives By Companionship, Expanding And Quickening In The Eyes Of The Sensitive Observer