It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.

When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important

Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

By changing our history and our memory, they try to erase all our shame.

Without work, we die daily.

We are living out the drama of a pathetic story whose pages are smeared with our own handwriting.

I'm not a fighter. If there's something going on that I really feel strongly about, I'll certainly stand up but I pick my battles...

And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.

There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable.

I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning.

Many children are taught to believe in God. I came to believe in the power of systems analysis.

When we got to our hotel rooms, mosquitoes as big as George Foreman were waiting for us. They were sitting in armchairs with their legs crossed.

Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not.