I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call "future."

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.

Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself.

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.

What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence.

I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water.

Between the happening of a historical process and its recognition by rulers, a lag stretches, full of pitfalls.

If there were no heaven and no hell, I would still want to be a Christian because of what it does for our homes and our own families in this life.

Most Girls think that the every boy they don't like is not good but they didn't see the inner soul of them.

Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.

As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

A glacier will frequently move forward one foot while retreating three feet... Which reminds me a lot of myself!

When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.

Some nights I sleep like a baby. Other nights it's, Oh God, I just came up with a bomb shot.

Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person.