An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

Humor is the only reason to live.

Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem