The more I work, the more I want to work.

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.

Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself.

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.

What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence.

I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water.

He was stretched out like he was her own personal playground and she wanted to ride on his equipment for a bit longer.

What is beautiful is goodand who is good will soon be beautiful.

Intellectuality" silences OTHERS! "Intelligence" keeps YOU silent!

It's his duty. A good healer can't pick and choose. If he can help, then he must.

A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.

Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers - if only to become the kind of country that could no longer conceive of how that was possible.

It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.

From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I've just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy characters.

Abundance is a dance with reciprocity - what we can give, what we can share, and what we receive in the process.