Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.

Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

Like I tell our kids, 'Your Mom isn't always right and I'm not always right. But together, WE'RE ALWAYS right!

Humans seldom have created anything of lasting value unless they were tired or hurting.

The Universe Conspires....to get what you truly desire

I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.

I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.

I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.

He wasn't a medical doctor, just educated all the way up as far as you can get.

Come to the Root of the Root of your Self