If painting doesn't offer a way to dream and create emotions, then it's not worth it.

It's what I do that teaches me what I'm looking for.

Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.

Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.

For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose of a painting and of art in general.

I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist.

I never want to stop painting. I'm 94 now. What's my secret? I just keep thinking about the painting I'm going to do tomorrow.

I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.

Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted to do was to paint.

Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.

I always liked paintings to be walls rather than windows. When we see a painting on a wall, it's a window, so I often put my paintings in the middle of the space to make a wall.

There's a part of me that looks beyond everything now.

Vickie Lynn Hogan is my birth certificate's name.

Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.

The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.

Can you keep secrets? Can you know a thing and never say it again?

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

All my time in rehab has made me appreciate tennis more than ever.

Play the game right. If you play the game intelligently and execute the fundamentals, you can win.

My massage was marvellous. I feel really relaxed. And my masseur, Harold :You can't have a masseur called Harold. It's like having a member of the Royal Family called Ena.

I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.