All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds.

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

People become artists out of despair.

It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.

If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it.

Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us.

I begin with movement... I believe that all human visual experiences are born from movement..

The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (remark on printmaking).

You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden.

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness. In fact, he creates new appearances of things.

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes — a fact which is recognized in the extra ration issued to old-age pensioners.

Believe in thyself.It is a great gift for thyself.

Laws are the spider's webs which if anything small falls into them they ensnare it but large things break through and escape.

Learn to see, and then you'll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.

A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.

We cannot improve the making of our eyes, but we can endlessly perfect the camera.

Once you feel grateful, you are in an energy that can create miracles.

The gospel has two parts. It has the part that says you're a sinner, and it has the part that says you're loved and accepted.

When you respond to life, that's positive; when you react to life, that's negative.