If Picasso drips, I drip... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso.

I seek a form of language which will express my ideas for our time.

The secret is to throw yourself into the water of life again and again, not to hang back, no reservations, risk everything, but above all strike out boldly with all you have.

The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to.

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.

When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting - I just stop working on it for a while.

Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.

Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of living because it moves.

Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush.

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

I do not paint in front of but from within nature.

When we fall in love, we recognise in the other the fragments of ourselves that we have lost.

The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.

It is no good worrying about things that are out of your hands

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

I'm free of hypochondria-- although I've got everything else.

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

You attract the predominant thoughts that you're holding in your awareness.

Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.

Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.

Climate change is crap.