I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious.

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived... and the picture that fights for its own life.

Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.

I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.

The reality is the picture, it is most certainly not in the picture.

What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.

An active civil position makes a Christian strong as the image of God

Let go of all hate, love one another deeply.

Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

Respect flows two ways and can mean as much to the giver as to the one receiving.

If your heart has grown distant from Allah, the real question is who moved?

If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

Truth is the summit of being.

Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.