What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

The important thing is first of all to have a real love for the visible world that lies outside ourselves as well as to know the deep secret of what goes on within ourselves.

My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.

Sometimes stories are too long and hard to tell. That's why Photography exists.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Tomorrow is more sure than just about anything else in the entire world.

A life is a life no matter how small

I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.

True love BLOOMS when we care more about another person than we care about ourselves.

We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.

The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.

What has happened in the past is a lot of good policies have been developed on paper, but you find they are not implemented. So there is a disconnect between rhetoric and practice.

Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.