When I look back on the townscapes now, they do seem to me to recall certain images of the destruction of Dresden during the war.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

Art is the highest form of hope.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

All photographs are far more important than any painting.

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

It’s television, after all. No one is dead, even when they die.

Justice Scalia was a lion of the law. Agree or disagree with him, all of his colleagues on the bench shared his wisdom and his humor. And like them, I miss him.

Advocating for yourself in the context of friendship starts with choosing the right people to be part of your inner circle.

It's in my wheelhouse to be creepy, as a person.

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

Everybody's born to be different, that's the one thing that makes us the same.

Anything a man does can bring him closer to the Supreme Wisdom, as long as he works with Love in his heart.

When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.

Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.

A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.