Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.

Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.

In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair

Mama said, "Dreams are different to real life but important too."

Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.

She had never felt more alive than when she lay dying in Han Alister's arms.

Treat your employees like customers.

When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.

People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.

The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.

Apple stores are intended not just to move boxes, but to enrich lives.