There Is Only One Thing I Fear

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

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.

With Us The Disguise Must Be Complete. The Familiar Identity Of Things Has To Be Pulverized In Order To Destroy The Finite Associations With Which Our Society Increasingly Enshrouds Every Aspect Of Our Environment.

I Do Not Believe That There Was Ever A Question Of Being Abstract Or Representational. It Is Really A Matter Of Ending This Silence And Solitude, Of Breathing, And Stretching One's Arms Again Transcendental Experiences Became Possible.

The Abstract Artist Has Given Material Existence To Many Unseen Worlds And Tempi.