All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Art doesn't reflect what we see; it makes us see.

A line is a dot that went for a walk.

Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.

The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.

Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.

We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love.

The road of rock and roll (much like life) is littered with broken dreams and death. And it's our job to overcome these and to survive.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

I think the Chinese do have visions of being a great power. And I think it's legitimate. And I don't see that that's a danger to us.

Getting to play a yogic healer was awesome. I love yoga, so I've had a lot of teachers.

One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

I long to kiss the image of my death.