I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture.

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.

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

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.

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.

I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment.

It is a good rule in life to be wary of the company of people who think of themselves in the third person, no matter how well justified they might seem to be in doing so.

If not me- who?, If not now- when?

We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.

Self-knowledge, I guess, is hard. But I think pain is harder, personally. I think to be hopeless is very hard. I think to die without hope or to live without hope is very hard.

There is another reason journalists like to drink and eat together: they simply cannot think of better company.

Men love to be the first to read the newspaper in the morning. Not being the first is upsetting to their psyches.

I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns.

Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.