A painter is a choreographer of space.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

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

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.

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 only life that matters is in your mind. The only truth is the one that lives invisibly, that waits even after you close the book. Silence, too, is a kind of music. Silence will last.

Making a difference is a point of view. For a universe, you can be a simple individual. But for some individual, you can transform "your universe".

.....what happened to my little brother had to fit into my life, not consume or define it.

A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.

I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.

The more people you love, the weaker you are.

I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.