If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it.

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

People become artists out of despair.

It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.

Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us.

I begin with movement... I believe that all human visual experiences are born from movement..

All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds.

The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (remark on printmaking).

You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden.

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness. In fact, he creates new appearances of things.

You seriously have a Dalmatian? Is that, like, mandatory for a firefighter?

THE SAFEST PLACE YOU COULD BE IS BESIDE ME.“ KANAME

He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like.

And any stone being mentally handled must become endowed with such poetry and artistry as God has given you.

You see, you don’t want me to love you. You want the version you’ve made up. The knight, even though I’m the dragon and I always will be.

My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.

I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.

Pope John Paul II's press secretary, who said, See, if only the Pope were Italian, he woulda shot back! Never got a dinner!

The history of literature is the history of the human mind.