The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

True art lies in a reality that is felt.

I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.

I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.

Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.

What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.

I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render.

Changing your mind and your attitude can move you into what seems like another dimension.

If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants.

Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

How rich is anyone who can simply see human faces.

Our purpose in this life is to gain the view of ourselves; otherwise, we are total slaves to others who psychically drain us, abuse us.

No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge

I don't think there's a hobby that I haven't tried on.

For America's economic future to remain prosperous, we must encourage pro-growth policies so that we continue to be the leader in innovation and entrepreneurship.

You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure. The rich have get their channels in the bedrooms of the poor. And there's a mighty Judgement coming but I may be wrong.