The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective.

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.

Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.

The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.

Curves are so emotional.

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.

The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.

Just keep hope within you and your path will be lit.

Find mebeneath your tongue, but not with other lipsnor by another tongueFind melet your yearning run wild as thirst seeks wateras silence seeks the soundFind meand I will be on my way...

I have a lot of faith and confidence in Cuban democracy.

The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.

Even in the busiest lives, there is room for a sacred pause. Between actions, pause and remember who you are.

You know what I'll do? I'll get a knife and cut out his tongue, and we'll send it to his wife

The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.

One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.