Surrealism, is interested in a dream world that will penetrate the human psyche. - Barnett Newman

The present painter is concerned not with his own feelings or with the mystery of his own personality but with the penetration into the world-mystery. His imagination is therefore attempting to dig into metaphysical secrets.

Aesthetics is for painting as Ornithology is for the birds.

Genesis I: 'The earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And God said, let there be light, and there was light.'