Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

I prefer to see with closed eyes.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.

Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous.

We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!

In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.

As we do not see squares in nature, I thought that it is man-made. But I have corrected myself. Because squares exist in salt crystals, our daily salt.

Learn to see and to feel life; that is, cultivate imagination, because there are still marvels in the world, because life is a mystery and always will be. But be aware of it.

Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness

If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.

The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.

Writing the book automatically made me accept myself and love myself more.

I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.

Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French.

When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.

I still think of myself really as a New Yorker

Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.