It is a task of art to express clear vision of reality.

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

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.

Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.

Allow the resurrected Christ to allocate your time as His own . . . and have complete right-of-way throughout your being.

I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.

And then they kiss. Slowly, gently. Because with the right person, sometimes kissing feels like healing.

God's wraith is really only the face of love refused.

America has never paid any attention to other people, so it's absurd for Bush to say that it's all in the best interests of the Iraqi people.

Life protracted is protracted woe.

God gives the exact experiences he wants them to have in order to shape the specific destiny he designed for them.