The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.

The image my work invokes is the image of good - not evil; the image of order - not chaos; the image of life - not death. And that is all the content of my constructions amounts to.

If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.

Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man.

The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness.

The way of a creative mind is always positive, it always asserts; it does not know the doubts which are so characteristic of the scientific mind.

What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts.

We affirm depth as the only pictorial and plastic form of space.

Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systems to philosophy.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time.

We need to do something about gun violence in America. But every time one of these things happen, we say the same thing, and then we don't seem to be able to do anything. And that needs to change.

The only thing I hated about the agency business was a lot of business travel. It was the only part of my job that I did not like. I found it very tedious and wearing.

Because we are living in a culture increasingly dominated by fear where many feel blocked.

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.

We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

I think people should give in to what they feel like doing at the time and be a raw animal.

There's a difference between a job and a career - if you're the boss you don't stop at six o'clock, you have to worry about everything all the time.

Many do not recognize the call of God simply because they have never taken the time to really talk with Him long enough to know what He is like.