Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.

The important thing is first of all to have a real love for the visible world that lies outside ourselves as well as to know the deep secret of what goes on within ourselves.

My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.

The greatest mystery of all is reality.

History is the hallmark of humanity.

Forgiveness reveals the ultimate beauty of life.

This is what I’ve always loved about a city, all the worlds hidden away inside, largest of aquariums.

Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.

Theology is Classified Superstition.

We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on.

I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.

Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly.

You can't really be too calculated about everything in life.

Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of an adult.