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. Posthumous sources (1970)
[I am] dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times. Posthumous sources (1970)
One does not paint for design students or historians but for human beings, and the reaction in human terms is the only thing that is really satisfactory to the artist. [in conversation with W.C. Seitz] Posthumous sources (1970)
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. Posthumous sources (1970)