My work is not repetition. It is an exploration.

With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.

I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting.

In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.

Anything is of course inexhaustible, because at each moment the brain has a different pattern to construct.

Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.

Seeing is looking at something in saturation. But we tend to look at something for, say, 1/30 of a second.

The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.

It's impossible to just localize your perceptions - because the stimuli come from both eyes.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.

When you think of famous New Zealanders, there aren't many.

True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.

Never mistake movement for action

The emphasis in tantra is not what you find yourself doing, it's on meditation.

I have a lot of favorite films. I tend to love the silliness of 'Bringing Up Baby.' 'Charade' is fantastic. 'His Girl Friday,' the banter in that, that alone made me want to be a writer.

God employs different strategies for different places or purposes

There are five signs of righteousness: a gentle disposition and a soft heart, shedding tears of regret, ascetism and not caring about the world, being unambitious, and having a conscience.

Obviously the dharma is every breath we take, every thought we think, every word we speak, if we do it with awareness and an open, caring heart.