Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings.

Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's mass culture, which aims to produce a lot of consuming morons.

The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.

What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.

The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form.

I am ashes where once I was fire...

It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.

On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

I've never really liked L.A., because of its sprawl.

I sort of loved the bustle of a thousand questions. Women are inherently kind of multitaskers.

To separate mind from body doesn't make any sense.

Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome.

People learn by playing, thinking and amazing themselves. They learn while they're laughing at something surprising, and they learn while they're wondering "What the heck is this!?"