If a figure doesn't look back at you, you forget it.

See the first stroke as a start and everything after that a recovery.

The gesture must be correct. If the gesture is correct, your mind really creates the reality of the figure, and it is not necessary to hang on all the rest [of the details].

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is.

Though I have considerable interest in Europe and in traveling, I am most content with simply working and allowing the world that I'm creating to unfold before my eyes.

I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and tradition than in inventing a unique imagery.

But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.

I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.

The main thing I do is to carry myself as best as I can on my pro level.

Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources.

You can see the weakness of a man right through his iris.

Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant. They're quite clear that we would create law based on the God of the Bible and the 10 Commandments.

To be world champion brings fame. The fame brings good things and bad things too. I try to take the good with calmness.

It wasn't long ago I was cleaning toilets and now I have protestors. How cool is this?