I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seemstometheyare more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.

My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.

I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.

With weapons we can kill our enemies

I feel playful aggression is important for children because they have to deal with all kinds of anger and aggression in their lives.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining - I'm broadening the joining.

The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different

I like Stallone, because he writes. He sits down with a blank page and comes up with another Rambo movie. That isn't very easy for anybody. He's made it successful on top of that.

The flaw is the thing we love.

American Taliban John Walker Lindh has pleaded guilty to two counts of terrorism and will face twenty years in prison. I guess that means his jihad is on ji-hold.

A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe