What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

Our entire being is nourished by color.

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul.

Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

Forgive yourself and you will be happy. Forgive everything and you will be happiest.

It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it.

Creativity is the new literacy

The fruits of life fall into the hands of those who climb the tree and pick them.

We have a bow and arrow and if we aim well, we can hit the target. The problem is that Bayern has a bazooka. The probability that they will hit the target is clearly higher.

My mother is a Muslim - she walks five steps behind my father. She doesn't have to. He just looks better from behind.

I'm very career-driven, so my focus and my energy has been into that.

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.