I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.

The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.

In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.

Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.

The negative is just as important as the positive.

My forms are geometric, but they don't interact in a geometric sense. They're just forms that exist everywhere, even if you don't see them.

Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct and uncompromising.

I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting as I had known it was finished for me.

I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.

I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow.

Do not be unkind to others just because you are passing through difficult times because they are not responsible for your misery.

The mind, just like the body, becomes exactly what it is fed. While the body is nourished by food, the mind is nourished by thoughts.

Music did that to me, just like God was supposed to, because music seemed both magic and holy.

Home will always be where comfort is, even if that comfort is pain

Everything man sees he takes for a toy. 'Thus is he always, forever a boy.

I didn't need the elf outfit to play an elf; I could just play an elf.

Read, but not to remember everything. Read because that 1% that you remember has the potential to change your life.

Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.

I wouldn't necessarily be star-struck. I haven't been yet. But I don't know what happens in the future - maybe one day I will be. You never know.

One of the most powerful forms of information is feedback on our own actions.