"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."

"That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art."

"Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness."

"There is no such thing as good painting about nothing."

"This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale."

"And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space."

"Silence is so accurate."