It's impossible to just localize your perceptions - because the stimuli come from both eyes.

With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.

My work is not repetition. It is an exploration.

I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting.

In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.

Anything is of course inexhaustible, because at each moment the brain has a different pattern to construct.

Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.

Seeing is looking at something in saturation. But we tend to look at something for, say, 1/30 of a second.

The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be andhe will become as he can and should be.

When you have style, it doesn't matter what other people are saying.

Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

I would have all intoleration intolerated in its turn.

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.

One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

Working toward perfection is not a one time decision but a process to be pursued throughout one's lifetime.

True Love gives you Peace! It doesn't consume you with anxiety, that's lust!

A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.