Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.

Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.

The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.

When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity is not located in some remote, inaccessible region. It is rooted in everyday life.

They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.

The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.

I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.

A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious; such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first significance or its first relevance.

The tattoo can only exist as part of the skin, as a drawing always is an incision in the material and therefore cannot be parted from it.

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.

My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.

By choosing recovery and risking to be real, we set the healthy boundaries that say, "I am in charge of my recovery and my life, and no one else on this Earth is.

Nothing bad ever happens, why should I care?

The paths that we choose don't always take us where we want to go. Sometimes they take us where we need to go.

I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.

Within the body there is played Music unending, though without stringed instruments That music of the Word pervades the entire creation Who listens to it is freed from all illusion

The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.

There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

The thing I absolutely love about food is it's a common thread that connects us no matter what culture we come from.

Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.