The Artist Invites The Spectator To Take

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

While The Authority Of The Doctor Or Plumber Is Never Questioned, Everyone Deems Himself A Good Judge And An Adequate Arbiter Of What A Work Of Art Should Be And How It Should Be Done.

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.

You Think My Paintings Are Calm, Like Windows In Some Cathedral? You Should Look Again. I'm The Most Violent Of All The American Painters. Behind Those Colours There Hides The Final Cataclysm.

We Assert That The Subject Is Crucial And Only That Subject Matter Is Valid Which Is Tragic And Timeless.