If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into their little specializations. I'd go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.

If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.

My work is about helping humanity.

I wish I didn't have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.

Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.