When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

A painter is a choreographer of space.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.

The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

The people of Waziristan are so innocent they seem stupid and so straight forward they seem arrogant

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea.

I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust on condition that they should be applied to the common benefit of the church.

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.

Food is culture, and we need to listen to it.

Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined).