Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

Art is the highest form of hope.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

All photographs are far more important than any painting.

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

My paintings are wiser than I am.

Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.

I have survived, but I have not been spared.

I never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous.

There is nothing like practice.

The image of God, then, involves gender identity and complementarity. God created gender in duality as male and female.

Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in God's presence.

Every day is a crossroads. Every day is a chance to change your life and our world for the better.

I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

I run around in circles, professionally.