The material presence of the work only serves as a conveyer launching an invitation to the observer to take part of the comprehensive game of the thousand and one emotions and visions.

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.

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

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.

i just want to be honest about my feelings without destroying everything.

A life without books is like body without a soul.

There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.

One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.

The worst kind of job to have is a job with lots of responsibility and very little power.

A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

A small number of peasants - brave peasants - shot down two Apaches

Well, it hurts my feelings because the person that I read about sometimes in these gossip magazines is not the person who I am. So I don't want, you know, my fans to think that's how I am.

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.