Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.

There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.

I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.

Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed.

We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.