Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

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.

Let's do everything that we can, and let the good Lord do everything else that we can't.

I am relentlessly determine to be occupied with Jesus Christ and His Glorious Gospel and nothing else.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

My first album was completed in three months.

Obviously the shift to gas and the need for large amounts of gas in the United States is going to be a major focus of attention on the part of producers.

What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

It's enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.

The Spiritual Sun already blazes within.

I wouldn't trade the experiences I've had over the past 36 years for anything.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.