Paul Klee seems to handle colors and dreams as if they both came out of a box of children's toys. He plays and dreams with whatever he finds.

No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching the real, one feels health and truth restored.

I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.

Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks.

A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.

The image gets built one way or another... it doesn't get done by following the natural order of things, but arises instead from an order that you have in your mind.

A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and experience. Share this quote with a friend

All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms of this ideal entity and to bring to the fore yet another inadequacy.

Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though I were to feel more at home in it than in myself.

Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one amputates it from its context of dreams?

You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees.

It's sort of my go-to stock image of my childhood, actually. I think it has something to do with knowing I'll never be able to go back to that time that makes me cry every time I listen to it.

The quiet times are the ones to hold on to.

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

I will scrape and dig into every word as far as I can get, right down to the essence of the word, to the substance of the image.

I don't shave when I'm not working.

The Colombian economy is very strong. We have one of the highest rates of growth in Latin America.

I'm your mother. I see all. Hear all. Know all.

Earth is the material with the most potential because it is the original source material.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

There can be no greatness in things. Things cannot be great. The only greatness is unselfish love.