All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.

Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.

The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.

Curves are so emotional.

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.

The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.

To fly/steal is woman’s gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.

What's more important than recycling? Producing something to recycle.

No one likes a person that "should of" all over the place.

What, whom we put our hope in determines our stability!" EL

Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful.

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!

I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile.

Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War)

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.