To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
(Art is) the residue of vision.
The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling - be it an illusion or not - that something new has opened up.
I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn't care.
Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit. ” (Analects 4. 16)
Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise to an approving God.
The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback.
No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.