Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one amputates it from its context of dreams?

No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching the real, one feels health and truth restored.

I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.

Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks.

A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.

The image gets built one way or another... it doesn't get done by following the natural order of things, but arises instead from an order that you have in your mind.

Paul Klee seems to handle colors and dreams as if they both came out of a box of children's toys. He plays and dreams with whatever he finds.

A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and experience. Share this quote with a friend

All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms of this ideal entity and to bring to the fore yet another inadequacy.

Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though I were to feel more at home in it than in myself.

You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

The power of belief gives legitimacy to whatever may be necessary.

What will a man gain by winning the whole world, at the cost of his true self?

Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

There was the door to which I found no key There was the veil through which 1 might not see.

I wasn't really sold on being an artist until high school, my senior year. I was going to do the college thing originally.

The world is near escalating to World War Three and where are the leaders of each religion? Why aren't they having a conclave; why aren't they coming together?

I’d like to consider Ferrari as a scaled down version of God.

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

Competitive advantage is a companys ability to perform in one or more ways that competitors cannot or will not match.