Cézanne made a cylinder out of a bottle. I start from the cylinder to create a special kind of individual object. I make a bottle a particular bottle out of a cylinder.

The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost.

I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.

I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.

She would never let anyone interfere with her right to use her mind.

Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately.

I realize how unique my path has been. And I'm thankful for that.

It's amazing what sleep does for your looks.

We always get rejections, whether it's in love or anything in life. And then negativity tends to creep in. But hopefully we are honest towards the people around us so that we can conquer it.

I absolutely think that it's possible for us to find common ground.

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.

Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.

Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls.