“The more an artist works the more there is to do.”

Making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive – non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective.

I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea… The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.

My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.

So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.

The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

Art is not the spiritual side of business.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

Art is art. Everything else is everything else.

We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren’t.

The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.

More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel.

We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.

And what I love is that it’s such a creative process, with a bunch of people, and I wanted that more, which is how the acting thing came about.

I was like: “I’m actually doing this.” And now I feel more confident going into something.

As we practice the work of forgiveness we discover more and more that forgiveness and healing are one.

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself.

Prayer is a matter of giving ourselves to God and learning His laws, so that He can do through us what He wants the most.