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.

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.

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.

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.

If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.

I don't think there are any true heroes. Just people who ignore their survival instincts long enough to do something incredibly foolhardy.

Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there

Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere

The samurais lived with death constantly. They wore a short dagger to take their own life if need be. At any moment they might have to do that, it was a part of their code.

Look to the temple of the Lord as the great symbol of your membership.

Advanced life-forms, my seweet patootie. Jerks. Both of them.

Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.

Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential.