The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

Art is a wound turned into light.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.

If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.

When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the object... Fragmentation helped me to establish space and movement in space.

I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.

And the roads called us to take the walk.

He is a cat, Miss Lancaster. Asking him such questions is an exercise in futility.

Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.

It's not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It's their intimate relationship with it.

My mind is constantly in five different places, but golf is great because it forces you to focus completely and purely on what you're doing.

You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.

I haven’t even really tried to win you over, Roza. When I want to, I can be very persuasive.

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

It really is fascinating stuff, and I've picked it up on Scrubs. Memorizing lines is at least as hard as studying a text book, I mean, by this point I know about as much as most 'real' doctors.