Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life

Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.

The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room or in the official museums.

I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray.

Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.

Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions.

Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.

The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting

I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?]

Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state.

The only part of Christian teachings which will be truly accepted by the Chinese people is Christ's injunction to be "harmless as doves" but "wise as serpents.

I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.

Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm

The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.