The simplest things give me ideas.

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.

The biggest criminals that I have met in life are working for the government. They make mass murderers look like amateurs.

Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.

No one can endure his own solitude.

It's not about the church meeting your needs; it's about joining the mission of God's people to meet the world's needs.

Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.

The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other

Your inner-most dominant thoughts become your outer-most tangible reality.

One should use great care to select an employer who will be an inspiration, and who is, himself, intelligent and successful