A mind that is interested in changing...is interested precisely in the things that are at extremes. I'm certainly like that. Unless we go to extremes, we won't get anywhere.

When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.

All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.

You can feel an emotion; just don't think that it's so important.

I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.

The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.