Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.

A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.

The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.

To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.