Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.
The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions. . the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.
There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red.
I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.
The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees
Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.
It isn't necessarily the great and famous beauty spots we fall in love with. As with people, so with places. Love is unforeseen, and we can all find ourselves affectionately attached to the minor and the less obvious.
Respect is the key determinant of high performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform.
. . . scientists have made no clear effort to become an important, independently active force of mankind. Whole congresses at a time, they back away from the suffering of others; it is more comfortable to stay within the bounds of science.