Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks.

No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching the real, one feels health and truth restored.

I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.

A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.

The image gets built one way or another... it doesn't get done by following the natural order of things, but arises instead from an order that you have in your mind.

Paul Klee seems to handle colors and dreams as if they both came out of a box of children's toys. He plays and dreams with whatever he finds.

A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and experience. Share this quote with a friend

All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms of this ideal entity and to bring to the fore yet another inadequacy.

Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though I were to feel more at home in it than in myself.

Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one amputates it from its context of dreams?

You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees.

There is no freedom without bravery.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

I think you want to try every sport possible just to experience life.

For some people, the better route for finding like-minded parents is just to get out of your house with your baby and frequent baby-friendly places.

Innovation comes from recombining existing technology and different perspectives in innovative ways.

Money honey, if you want to get along with me.

We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent.

The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.

Ever since I became a movie star,I've been really weird.

If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.