Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.

I seek a form of language which will express my ideas for our time.

The secret is to throw yourself into the water of life again and again, not to hang back, no reservations, risk everything, but above all strike out boldly with all you have.

The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to.

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.

When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting - I just stop working on it for a while.

Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of living because it moves.

Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush.

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

If Picasso drips, I drip... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso.

I do not paint in front of but from within nature.

Warriors are warriors not because of their strengh, but because of their ability strengh to good purpose

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

Beyond learning and unlearning is awareness, and beyond awareness is consciousness, and beyond consciousness is immortality, and beyond immortality is dharma and beyond dharma is nirvana.

Hard work is for people short on talent.

Words, particularly in a play, should have the texture of a crisp, autumn apple.

I would like better to be known as the Godfather of Fashion, with all the implications that that word has.

Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

Great improvisers are like priests... they are thinking only of their God

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.