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

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.

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.

In the middle of nowhere, a trunk heavy with gold is a burden, not treasure.

To be at peace, does not mean that you are amiss of every storm, it only means that you can find a calm within the storm.

I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.

In the Middle Ages, bloodletting was often performed by barbers, which is why the traditional barber’s pole—like the bloody towels that once hung outside barber shops—is colored red and white.

Humor is the mask of wisdom.

Not only the Jew, but also all that is derived from the Jewish mind, corrodes and disintegrates what is best in us.

I came here as a man of visions. I was sent here as a man of visions, like a second Noah. I'm not a Noah but I'm here as a second Noah. I'm here as a red light is in the street.

We need to stop the dying and start the living; stop the hunger and start the hoping.

And when you talk about realization, accomplishment for that matter enlightenment is that when you realize the fundamental essence of your mind.

The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no use of any of the attributes of worth.