I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.

Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself.

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.

What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence.

I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water.

Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder where you are. Looking up is no solution; The sky's so full of light pollution.

Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded.

I've never really had a problem with people.

There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.

If you are explaining, you are losing.

Revolution is not something outside of us, but inside us, begging for our engagement every single day.

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we’d be terrified.