The picture should be fecund. It must bring a world to birth.

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.

To have a good business, always have a caring heart.

They say this soul hunting will cost me my sanity, i say i'd go insane if i stop.

Sleep is the only thing I stay awake for.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

If you think you can't, you're right.

The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer than in other states.

I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.

Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.