If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning..

The secret principle of martial arts is not vanquishing the attacker, but resolving to avoid an encounter before its occurrence. To become an object ….

When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming..

Art should offend people because art should challenge people..

I would say if you are familiar with our history and the history of our art and literature that you see a clear cut pattern of people wanting to cont….

Nature/Structure. There is no more to say. In my pictures I reduce to that. But 'reduce' is the wrong word, because these are not simplifications. I ….

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to….

But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imag….

Picturize, prayerize, actualize..

I live in Brooklyn, New York. It is a melting pot of cultures and people. I walk down the street, and there is art on the buildings and people congre….

David Foster Wallace: I think one of the insidious lessons about TV is the meta-lesson that you’re dumb. This is all you can do. This is easy, and yo….

Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the unknowable, transcending reason, ….

And it has been sarcastically said, that there is a wide difference between a good physician and a bad one, but a small difference between a good phy….

I wish there were fewer art dealers. I wish there were fewer auctions. I wish there were just two auctions a year. It's just too much. And at the end….

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies..

Well, it's one of the things that will. Words are good, and words help us become the leading species on earth to the point where we are now ready to ….

The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of t….

The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as the one art peculiarly r….

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature..

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present..

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live..