I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray.

Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life

Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.

The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room or in the official museums.

Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.

Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions.

Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.

Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting

Whatever makes a man a beast also renders him pitiable. But it behoves us to be wary of these besti*l men despite our compassion, for they frequently turn on their friends.

How do I know that I don’t need what I want? I don’t have it.

I would like to think that Ive left the world of cardiovascular surgery better than when I found it. That would be a suitable epitaph.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

I'm trying to create artwork that makes people, and myself, think about judgment as a reflex. This is something that must be changed.

We talk about how many women were raped last year, not about how many men raped women.

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

Change is inherent in every form.