Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

The important thing is first of all to have a real love for the visible world that lies outside ourselves as well as to know the deep secret of what goes on within ourselves.

My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.

The greatest mystery of all is reality.

He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

There is an old saying, The harder you try the luckier you get. I kind of like that definition of luck.

I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.

God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing

I'm in love with hope.

Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life.

There's such a wealth of great music, clothes or whatever. There is so much great stuff out there, that why would you not still be interested if you've grown up in that kind of culture?

Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions.

Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.