Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine.

Cubism came about because, in the process of analyzing form, something that lay in the form, a plane, could be lifted out to float on its own.

Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they have ever been mixed in paint.

All that is happening in art is part of a process of exploration and discovery. I hope to live for a few more years so that I can catch glimpses of the oncoming future.

All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need to be given permanent form.

I don't want to always be doing the same old thing.

No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.

The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete.

Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka' moment when a sudden daring intervention has worked a miracle.

Each painting is a plunge into the unknown.

There is my love... of the young artists of my country who can carry on the dreams and ideals into the future.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Think about rethinking what you're thinking, before speaking the thought you were thinking, and cause unintended consequences for speaking what you probably shouldn't have been thinking.

I'm going to be honest with you. I don't want to sit here all night making small talk when all I want to do is kiss you.

At a certain point you can't help but lose some feel for what's on the ground because you're not on the ground.

I always say to my students, if you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.

You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious

In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth.

They [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.