I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.

Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.

Curves are so emotional.

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.

The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.

The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.

If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.

Freedom is something that you give yourself and no one else can ever take away.

Respect is the art of reciprocal. You can never earn respect by belittling and stepping over the people around you.

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

I wanted to know how humans came up with a view of the world that had so little magic in it. I needed to understand how they convinced themselves that magic wasn’t important.

Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?

Urban development in India... will be the biggest sunrise industry that any country has seen in any part of the world.

People get ready...Jesus is coming!

I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind.

Whatever you want, you can make things happen.