I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France.

Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions.

The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.

At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.

I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue.

Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw.

Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.

I have written my name on the far side of the sky.

Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to supplant your own ... then you might as well be dead.

I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.

If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican.

When you do a song new live on stage, it's kind of a bit weird until it gets worn in, you know, like oiled up a bit. It's still a little bit stiff until you really thrashed at it for a few weeks.

I finally stopped complaining about 'Why isn't everybody else making me what I want to be?' You can't rely solely on your agent or your managers to educate people as to who you are.

Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.

Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.

Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.

In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead.

When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.