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

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.

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

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.

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.

Do not forget to tell your daughters God made them beautiful.

Down through the years, I turned to the Bible and found in it all that I needed

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

In the soldier we see the love of country. When you are willing to go onto a battlefield and give your life to defend an ideal ... knowing that you may not live through day.

A good environment certainly makes it easier to grow. But whether you’re in a good environment or not, you can learn and improve where you are.

I watch ESPN all day long.

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

There is no slavery but ignorance.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.