Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.

Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again... only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.

A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.

We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all its amoral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art.

Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.

We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible.

To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.

The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will become. It is the experience of things that matters, the confrontation with things.

Being an artist is being an isolated individual.

To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.

The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.

Arrogance will kill anything and everything you ever possibly have.

Our soul contains energy, transformed into Spirit, expressing dreams and thoughts through works of the mind.

To cure sometimes to relieve often to comfort always.

They are an essential tool to give new life to what you already have in your wardrobe. Accessories are like vitamins to fashion: you should use them liberally as such.

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

In silence more work can be done. The true experience of bliss is without words.

The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery...is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.

Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody.

Vegetarians may be appalled, but much of gardening is actually raising animals: the tiny ones under the earth's surface