I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

Art is the highest form of hope.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

All photographs are far more important than any painting.

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

Maybe fire and kerosene don't go together for a reason.

If the Bible is true, then I'm Christ.

Friendship with oneself is all important.

I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution.

Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day.

Everyone has their personal topics. My comedy has always been very strong on observational humor, it stems from what I see every day in my life.

People who feel well are sick people neglecting themselves.

She glared at him. "I'm not asking you to apologize." "Well, that's a relief.I doubt I could find the words.

Always radiate positive currents of... Light, Goodness, Love, Kindness, Hope and Determination.

You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, 'There is a price we will not pay.' There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning of the phrase 'Peace through strength.'