At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.

Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions.

The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.

I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue.

Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw.

Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.

I have written my name on the far side of the sky.

Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.

Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.

We can learn to act and think in ways that sow seeds of our future well-being, gradually becoming more aware of what causes happiness as well as what causes distress.

His voice was oily and slick as it poured from his mouth like liquid acid, threatening to hook onto the woman's hair like a fishing hook and drag her back to death.

Sometimes When You Are Serious, People Thought You Were Joking, But Sometimes When You Are Joking, People Thought You Were Serious

I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

I've so much left to explore, it's enormously exciting to me. It's a passion. I just try and get better at what I do, and I study it very hard, like it is my life degree.

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.

Nobody should put out a record before they know what the street thinks.