Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.
Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.
I seek a form of language which will express my ideas for our time.
Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes. . . Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an explosion into unknown areas.
The secret is to throw yourself into the water of life again and again, not to hang back, no reservations, risk everything, but above all strike out boldly with all you have.
When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting - I just stop working on it for a while.
I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time. I do that because I want to - because I like to change my mind so often. The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting.
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.
Nurture is like psychic Wheaties.
We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that "we choose death. "
Titanic got 14 nominations one per lifeboat.