Art should be serious, not a joke. I dont like to laugh about art.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

Art is the highest form of hope.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

All photographs are far more important than any painting.

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

Human nature is the same in all professions.

If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.

At a time when the limits of leadership are being tested in so many places is your time to rule in your own territory.

If we get it right, there need not be losers.

There is always a gap between intention and action.

Leadership isn't what a team says, but what it does.

By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.

In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.

We read to know that we are not alone.

Knowledge has the power to help us avoid making bad choices that produce bad results.