Art To Me Is An Anecdote Of

If You Are Moved Only By The Color Relationships, Then You Miss The Point.

The Reason For My Painting Large Canvases Is That I Want To Be Intimate And Human.

When I Was A Younger Man, Art Was A Lonely Thing. No Galleries, No Collectors, No Critics, No Money. Yet, It Was A Golden Age, For We All Had Nothing To Lose And A Vision To Gain. Today It Is Not Quite The Same. It Is A Time Of Tons Of Verbiage, Activity, Consumption. Which Condition Is Better For The World At Large I Shall Not Venture To Discuss. But I Do Know, That Many Of Those Who Are Driven To This Life Are Desperately Searching For Those Pockets Of Silence Where We Can Root And Grow. We Must All Hope We Find 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.

I Use Colors That Have Already Been Experienced Through The Light Of Day And Through The State Of Mind Of The Total Man. In Other Words, My Colors Are Not Colors That Are Laboratory Tools Which Are Isolated From All Accidentals Or Impurities So That They Have A Specified Identity Or Purity.