On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.

Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in space, I suddenly felt as if I had been too long above my boots.

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

The search for an equilibrium is essential for the artist, to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space.

I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward into space as science and the rest do.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement... we must concentrate outside ourselves.

At a time when experimentation expresses itself in all forms of life, search becomes the only valid expression of the spirit.

According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.

We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.

White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity.

Somebody who is focused on money, doesn´t care about man. Somebody who cares about man, isn´t focused on money.

That's one of those meaningless and unanswerable questions the mind keeps returning to endlessly, like the tongue exploring a broken tooth.

I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

And I envy the intransigence of my own Countrymen who shoot to kill and never See the victim's face become their own Or find his motive sabotage their motives.

First thing I do [in the morning] is thank the master. I thank God every day.

AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.

What I'm trying to produce is the visual equivalent of the chord change that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.

It's amazing what you don't see, though. Even when it's right in front of your eyes.

The same fire that cooks a meal for us may burn a child, and it is no fault of the fire if it does so; the difference lies in the way in which it is used.