The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.

Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.

The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.

Curves are so emotional.

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.

The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.

Great leaders create more leaders, not followers.

Look out!! Ha! Now you've done it! Now you've broken a lamp, and you've got no one to blame it on but yourself!""Maybe I could blame it on society!

Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.

Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.

If the refugees return to Israel - Israel will cease to exist.

When discussing overall impacts on employment, it is important not to overlook the new technologies and industries that can be driven by pollution control standards.

It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.

European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.

If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.