Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.

Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life

Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.

The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room or in the official museums.

I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray.

Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions.

Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.

Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting

Earth to earth ashes to ashes dust to dust in sure and certain hope of the resurrection.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.

Music attacks my inner ear like an antagonist, it's not my world.

When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.

Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.

The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

Small facts lead to great knowing.