Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they have ever been mixed in paint.

Cubism came about because, in the process of analyzing form, something that lay in the form, a plane, could be lifted out to float on its own.

All that is happening in art is part of a process of exploration and discovery. I hope to live for a few more years so that I can catch glimpses of the oncoming future.

All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need to be given permanent form.

I don't want to always be doing the same old thing.

No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.

The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete.

Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine.

Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka' moment when a sudden daring intervention has worked a miracle.

Each painting is a plunge into the unknown.

There is my love... of the young artists of my country who can carry on the dreams and ideals into the future.

All women are many women! I'm afraid you've never known very much about women.

The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Time, the devourer of all things.

If something goes wrong, the only thing that might help you is God.

If not now then when? Oh I can always do it tomorrow. Unfortunately there is no lifetime of tomorrows.

When one 'we' gets to determine standards for all 'we's' then some 'we's' are in trouble.

Women like to watch women fight because it makes them feel sort of empowered physically and mentally. They feel kind of jazzed and excited by it.

The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my head.)