“Art – when it is really doing what it should do – teaches abstract thinking; it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to actually think about things that they cannot see.”

Movement begins to negotiate the distance between the brain and the body and it can be surprising what we learn about each other.

An artist should… bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, “What is their work in the service of?”

The body is a reservoir of all sorts of tensions and dark forces. And it’s also the potential source of amazing energy. This thing wants to live. It is a powerful engine.

The brain (is) a reservoir of images, dreams, fears, associations, language. And its potential we can’t even begin to understand.

The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more

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

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.

Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression.

Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.