I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.

Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.

I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.

The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.

Curves are so emotional.

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.

The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.

The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.

I gave my heart away to somebody long time ago- when I was barely a man. And I never got it back.

Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental not physical.

As fast as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is desire.

It is only because you take your mind to be yourself, and make it dwell on what you are not, that you lose your sense of well-being.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.

I have a great relationship with Special Olympics back in Baltimore and have had one for many years.

If you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.