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

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

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

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.

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.

If you have to do the work, it well.

You may be wrong at first

Bowing down in prayer to a body results in worldly life and bowing down in prayer to Soul results in attaining moksha (final liberation).

Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand.

Maybe one reason I had avoided anger was that like a lot of people I had thought there were only two responses to anger: to deny it or to strike out thoughtlessly. But other responses are possible.

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would break it.

I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.

How can I throw my life away in the least unhappy way?

Give these people money, let them play, and they'll come up with something.