Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life

Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.

The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room or in the official museums.

I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray.

Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.

Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions.

Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.

Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting

The great flaw in the American economic system has finally been revealed: an unrealistic faith in the power of prosperity rather than in the ultimate power and benevolence of God.

Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves to multiply the ways in which they exist to make their life full significant and interesting.

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

Without changing one's self, without peace in one's self, world peace is not possible.

Avery Morgansten? This is becoming a habit.

When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone.

For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes.

My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear.

The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith.