I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

Art is a wound turned into light.

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.

If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.

I wish I hadn't. I wish I'd fought for you. I was weak and stupid.

Adventure is found not in a fair wind, but rather in a raging tempest.

A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay.

Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.

I think there are plenty of soulmates out there. That's what I choose to believe.

Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.

When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

Why is partying and having a good time bad?