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

It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It's the most abstract of all art expression.

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.

Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.

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

The worst thing you can think about when you're working is yourself.

I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.