Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.

It's what I do that teaches me what I'm looking for.

If painting doesn't offer a way to dream and create emotions, then it's not worth it.

Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.

For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose of a painting and of art in general.

I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist.

I never want to stop painting. I'm 94 now. What's my secret? I just keep thinking about the painting I'm going to do tomorrow.

I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.

Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted to do was to paint.

Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.

I always liked paintings to be walls rather than windows. When we see a painting on a wall, it's a window, so I often put my paintings in the middle of the space to make a wall.

Nothing but truth is immortal.

When you go into the world you would not even notice when you become dead

Mature Christians daily recognize how short they fall in keeping God's law and realizes how desperately they needs God's grace.

Hiding what you feel inside is like running away from what you are.

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet. It's difficult.

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

Some people put more into their cars than they put into their relationships.

Sometimes the failures can be exciting and fun. It's just a step on the road, it's not the end of something.