“All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces,”

If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.

My favorite symbols were those which I didn’t understand.

It seems tome they are more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.

Painting is self-discovery.

I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant.

I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling…

Feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.

You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.

I never use nature as a starting point.

Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature.

The immediate presence of terror and fear.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

You are the light of consciousness and also the witness of this light. You are pure awareness.

You attract the predominant thoughts that you’re holding in your awareness.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

The Red List gives all of us a practical tool for raising awareness of the biodiversity crisis and for forging new partnerships within the international community.

We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.

Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.