“I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”

I don’t work from nature, I work like nature.

Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

I do not seek. I find.

You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

My hand tells me what I’m thinking.

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

When I haven’t any blue I use red.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it’s bidding.

Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

Live your life with passion, with some drive, decide that you are going to push yourself.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

The rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorns.

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.