I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Art doesn't reflect what we see; it makes us see.

A line is a dot that went for a walk.

Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.

Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.

I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine

You led the soldiers right to my family's door. You're the reason they're dead.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra not choreography to the audience.

I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.

I know that my dad not being in my life made a huge impact on me.

Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.

The human mind is a curious thing. It can take just so much and no more.

In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.