The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.

In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.

Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.

The negative is just as important as the positive.

My forms are geometric, but they don't interact in a geometric sense. They're just forms that exist everywhere, even if you don't see them.

Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct and uncompromising.

I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting as I had known it was finished for me.

I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.

I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow.

I believe people have to be open to what's happening when they're alive.

Choice is an illusion, what we eat is again illusion, nothing matters when it's illusion... so how did you survive???

People just don't understand, they aren't your level and they won't get there soon. So move because you will fall from there!

Marriage is a unique cultural relationship that has a long-standing tradition and societal meaning, which should not be redefined by the courts.

The arc of technology is in the direction of unbreakable encryption, and no laws are going to get in the way of that reality.

We're teaching our children how to live. We need to start teaching them how to die.

I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses.

Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.

There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.