Polyphonic painting is superior to music in that there, the time element becomes a spatial element. The notion of simultaneity stands out even more richly.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Art doesn't reflect what we see; it makes us see.

A line is a dot that went for a walk.

Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.

What comes from the heart will go to the heart

Strong anger can only make you weaker than you already are

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?

I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

We live alone, we die alone. Everything else is just an illusion.

I fight AIDS because it's a killer disease, destroys the human race in all fields.

Half is not enough protection, half is my fault and half is them just doing a good job. I know it's 150 percent, but I'm a little tired now.

I listen to some of the lyrics I used to write and I say, "Where was my head at when I wrote that?"

This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.