I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.

One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.