The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.
Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.
Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.
Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.
The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.
Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential.
The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.
When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
I was a terrible English student.
The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.