Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

Art is the highest form of hope.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

All photographs are far more important than any painting.

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

He was under the mistaken impression that I didn't have enough tact.The truth was, I had no tact.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

...I’m sorry you grew up without me and that fatherly moments came second hand like clothing and toys from your brothers...

I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic.

What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.

America has much to gain in terms of jobs and trade by meeting the growing world demand for advanced, environmentally sound technologies.

We are human because we can fantasize.

I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.

Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?

Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.