I want my paintings to have a light of their own, they must glow from inside.

There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking of a picture. The hand is cleverer than the mind.

My paintings should become objects into which one could float, as in water, so that one's mind is hung... suspended, and the emanation of the painting would penetrate into people's consciousness.

Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

By reading great stories, you will renew your mind.

That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.

History repeats itself but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

Few of us ever live in the present we are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

If I can get a sanitized version of reality, I'll take it.

When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.

I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.

The more I read the Scriptures I find an overwhelming case of Scriptures being concerned with the poor, outcast, widow, foreigner and marginalized.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

A community of small farmers... land property owners, will be the only assurance that the freedom our republic offers will be guaranteed to each and every citizen.