“I never use nature as a starting point.”

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…

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

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.

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.

Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.

Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.

You can play fast but not in a hurry. As a point guard, I can dictate that.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they’re like, ‘Hey! All right, all right, all right!’

I would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn’t play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.

Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world.