If You Are Only Moved By Color

The People That Weep Before My Paintings Are Having The Same Religious Experience That I Had When I Painted It.

The Picture Must Be... A Revelation, An Unexpected And Unprecedented Resolution Of An Eternally Familiar Need.

It Is The Poet And Philosopher Who Provide The Community Of Objectives In Which The Artist Participates. Their Chief Preoccupation, Like The Artist, Is The Expression In Concrete Form Of Their Notions Of Reality. Like Him, They Deal With The Verities Of Time And Space, Life And Death, And The Heights Of Exaltation As Well As The Depths Of Despair. The Preoccupation With These Eternal Problems Creates A Common Ground Which Transcends The Disparity In The Means Used To Achieve Them.

Pictures Must Be Miraculous: The Instant One Is Completed, The Intimacy Between The Creation And The Creator Is Ended.

We Are Concerned With Similar States Of Consciousness And Relationship To The World.. ..if Previous Abstractions Paralleled The Scientific And Objective Preoccupations Of Our Times, Ours Are Finding A Pictoral Equivalent For Man's New Knowledge And Consciousness Of His More Complex Inner Self.