When one reaches this state of harmony between things and one's self, one reaches a state of perfect freedom and peace-which makes everything possible and right. Life becomes perpetual revelation.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

Art is a wound turned into light.

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.

If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.

When the economy is still struggling, putting people back to work, finding ways to spur economic activity, ultimately can help to reduce the structural deficits and debts that countries experience.

The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today.

At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.

When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.

Welcome evill, if thou commest alone. [Welcome evil, if thou comest alone.]

Zionism is the most stupendous fallacy in Jewish history

We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting

How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear.

You can tell the size of a person by the way he treats people who cannot help him.