In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.

The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.

Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.

The negative is just as important as the positive.

My forms are geometric, but they don't interact in a geometric sense. They're just forms that exist everywhere, even if you don't see them.

Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct and uncompromising.

I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting as I had known it was finished for me.

I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.

I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow.

I believe people have to be open to what's happening when they're alive.

Where there is no hope, there is Christmas. And where there is no Christmas, there is no hope.

Benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual.

Some people feel like they don't deserve love so they walk quietly into the empty spaces.

I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack.

Everything in the world needs kindness, child. [Ryssa]