I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting.

With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.

My work is not repetition. It is an exploration.

In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.

Anything is of course inexhaustible, because at each moment the brain has a different pattern to construct.

Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.

Seeing is looking at something in saturation. But we tend to look at something for, say, 1/30 of a second.

The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.

It's impossible to just localize your perceptions - because the stimuli come from both eyes.

How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask."Keep going, " Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that.

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

Earthly authorities respect only visible and tangible forces

Without dark clouds in our lives, we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.

The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas.

Trust is something that happens within people only when it is created between people.

This is no lazy mans field

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

When you start somewhere, you've started.

Schist," said an angry voice from the grass. Hazel raised her eyebrows. "Excuse me?" "Schist! Big pile of schist!