It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

Art is a wound turned into light.

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.

If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.

Nobody wants to be passive; indexing is not passive - much more goes into indexing than watching a stock become the next buggy whip.

I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

Sometimes when you do big movies, you can lose sometimes a little bit of soul.

When speed dating I'm seeking my equal or at least one in the making.

The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.

A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future.

Postpone not your life.

Don't ever let anyone turn your sky into a ceiling.

Years ago, before this estate was generously and unwillingly turned over to the crown, the lord here was a genuine dimwit. He had a minister stashed behind his throne to whisper clever things to say.

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.