Small Pictures Since The Renaissance Are Like

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

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.

If Our Titles Recall The Known Myths Of Antiquity, We Have Used Them Again Because They Are The Eternal Symbols Upon Which We Must Fall Back To Express Basic Psychological Ideas.. ...(they) Express Something Real And Existing In Ourselves.

A Painting Is Not A Picture Of An Experience, But Is The Experience.

If You Are Only Moved By Color Relationships, You Are Missing The Point. I Am Interested In Expressing The Big Emotions - Tragedy, Ecstasy, Doom.