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

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 believe people have to be open to what's happening when they're alive.

His voice sounded like molten metal. As if he had something thick at the back of his throat and it was making him sound deeper and richer than he actually was.

In the end, we begin.

You can never let your compassion stand in the way of justice because when you do, other people get hurt.

And, above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.

But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.

Information is a difference that makes a difference.

I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline.

That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it.

A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame.