My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages.

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.

Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself.

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.

What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence.

I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water.

Finding our joy requires no leaping. It only wishes we’d opt for being lifted.

You need money to make money is nonsense! Entrepreneur people who started with nothing but an idea.

Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.

I'd taken a big fat crisis off my shoulders and loaded it all on Jesus, which seemed unfair in a way, but was exactly what the Bible recommended.

Can't you see... that I made it? Yeah I made it First I made you who you are, but then I made it.

Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

That's what's wrong with the people in this world; they believe they can do well by just getting by when they need to aim for the highest.

In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best.

From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do!