Colour is the skin of the world.

For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it was an extension of my art.

One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinite variety of images.

I love creation more than life, and I must express myself before disappearing.

It was a tradition to represent a dancer frozen in a chosen position, like a snapshot. I broke away from this tradition by superimposing postures, blending light and motion and scrambling the planes.

In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color.

The sun rises at midnight.

ZENITH / NOON beats out / on its solar anvil / the rays of light

ZENITHNOON beats outon its solar anvilthe rays of light

Love is force of being.

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.

I can't remember faces, don't remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

If you don't have faith, you have nothing.

once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.