“Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.”

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.

You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.

The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.

All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.

Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.

To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.

You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.

I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.

We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly

Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.

I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.

I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.

I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.

Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.

I have lived in Ireland, visited all my life, and when I fight, I represent Ireland.

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God’s representative on earth.

I represent the Democratic party… I’ve never been nor do I ever plan to be a John McCain supporter. I support Barack Obama.

How you dress on the outside, it represents your soul.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.

One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.