The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

Our entire being is nourished by color.

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul.

Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

They were happy to help someone, to succeed at something, even if they weren't to benefit.

There is no revelation in my words. I am merely stating what others have forgotten to write down.

Some people say Earth is the bottom level of Purgatory.' She pointed toward the floor and frowned.'I call it the top floor of Hell.

Let go of everything. That is how you get everything.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

All people are the same; only their habits differ.

I think another way that you can really harm yourself as an artist is by buying into the mythology that it's really important.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.

Everyone should be able to make art about ideas without getting cornered into self-art.

Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.