Cubism came about because, in the process of analyzing form, something that lay in the form, a plane, could be lifted out to float on its own.

Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they have ever been mixed in paint.

All that is happening in art is part of a process of exploration and discovery. I hope to live for a few more years so that I can catch glimpses of the oncoming future.

All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need to be given permanent form.

I don't want to always be doing the same old thing.

No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.

The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete.

Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine.

Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka' moment when a sudden daring intervention has worked a miracle.

Each painting is a plunge into the unknown.

There is my love... of the young artists of my country who can carry on the dreams and ideals into the future.

Now is much better then was, and if and when aren't as great as now - yet.

God always gives grace to the person who knows how to humble himself before Him and who sets his hopes on Him. God only gives grace to humble people.

Some of today’s slaves sleep on king size beds.

Whatever the needs of the public are, the government responds to those needs by getting larger.

You should be allowed to be a modern city dweller and still care about the environment.

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

Feelings form part of a world in which time, space and frontiers do not exist.

The reality is that China is a much stronger power today, because the economic dimension has been added to the military and strategic one.

The period of debate is closed. Arms, as a last resource, must decide the contest.

God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.